There are twenty-two
species of Anurans (frogs, spadefoots, and
toads) from five Families that live in Kansas.
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| Species List: |
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| Bufonidae - True Toads - Gray, 1825 |
| American Toad, Anaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836) |
| Fowler's Toad, Anaxyrus fowleri |
| Great Plains Toad, Anaxyrus cognatus (Say, 1823) |
| Green Toad, Anaxyrus debilis (Girard, 1854) |
| Red-spotted Toad, Anaxyrus punctatus (Baird & Girard, 1852) |
| Woodhouse's Toad, Anaxyrus woodhousii (Girard, 1854) |
| Hylidae - Treefrogs - Gunther, 1858 |
| Blanchard's Cricket Frog, Acris blanchardi Harper, 1947 |
| Boreal Chorus Frog, Pseudacris maculata (Agassiz, 1850) |
| Cope's Gray Treefrog, Hyla chrysoscelis Cope, 1880 |
| Eastern Gray Treefrog, Hyla versicolor LeConte, 1825 |
| Spotted Chorus Frog, Pseudacris clarkii (Baird, 1854) |
| Spring Peeper, Pseudacris crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1838) |
| Strecker's Chorus Frog, Pseudacris streckeri Wright & Wright, 1933 |
| Microhylidae - Narrowmouth Frogs - Gunther, 1858 |
| Eastern Narrowmouth Toad, Gastrophryne carolinensis (Holbrook, 1836) |
| Great Plains Narrowmouth Toad, Gastrophryne olivacea (Hallowell, 1856) |
| Ranidae - True Frogs - Bonaparte, 1831 |
| Bronze Frog, Lithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801) |
| Bullfrog, Lithobates catesbeianus (Shaw, 1802) |
| Crawfish Frog, Lithobates areolatus (Baird & Girard, 1852) |
| Pickerel Frog, Lithobates palustris (LeConte, 1825) |
| Plains Leopard Frog, Lithobates blairi (Mecham, Littlejohn, Oldham, Brown & Brown, 1973) |
| Southern Leopard Frog, Lithobates sphenocephalus (Cope, 1886) |
| Scaphiopodidae - North American Spadefoots - Cope, 1865 |
| Plains Spadefoot, Spea bombifrons (Cope, 1863) |