New County Records and Other Data Since 1996

Acris crepitans Baird - Northern Cricket Frog

Since publication of Atlas of Amphibians in Tennessee (Redmond, W. H. and A. F. Scott. 1996. The Center for Field Biology, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN. 94 pp.), several applicable taxonomic and nomenclatural changes and numerous reports of new county records have appeared in the literature. Comments, accompanied by cited references, on the taxonomic and nomenclatural changes plus bibliographical information on new county records as they pertain to the Acris crepitans follow:

Taxonomic and Nomenclatural Changes

In a study of diagnostic characteristics across the combined ranges of Acris crepitans crepitans and A. c. blanchardi, McCallum and Trauth (2006, An evaluation of the subspecies Acris crepitans blanchardi (Anura, Hylidae). Zootaxa 1104:1-21) obtained evidence that suggest no delineation between the two subspecies should be made and that the latter be synonymized with the former. 

New County Records

Anderson, Meigs, Moore and Polk counties 

Reynolds, R. G. and M. L. Niemiller, 2011. Northern Cricket Frog. Pp. 263-265 In M. L. Niemiller and R. G. Reynolds (eds.), The amphibians of Tennessee. The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville. 369 pp.

Schacher, W. H. and T. H. Henry. 2001. New county records for amphibians from Bledsoe County, Tennessee. Herpetol. Rev. 32:197-198.

Chester County

Butterfield, B. P., R. Sharp, and M. Williams. 1999. Geographic distribution. Acris crepitans crepitans. Herpetol. Rev. 30:105.

DeKalb County

Niemiller, M.L., B.M. Glorioso, G.R. Wyckoff, III, and J.K. Spiess.  2007.  New county records for amphibians in Middle Tennessee.  Herpetol. Rev. 38:234.

Haywood County 

Stanley, J.W. and B.P Butterfield.  2008.  Geographic distribution. Acris crepitans.  Herpetol. Rev. 39:104.

Houston County

Scott, A. F., S. Sutton, and S. Williamson. 2000. New county records of amphibians and turtles from the Western Highland Rim of central Tennessee. Herpetol. Rev. 31:117-118.

Lawrence County 

Stewart, Brian.  2010.  Geographic distribution.  Acris crepitans.  Herpetol. Rev. 41:102-103.

Marion County 

Davenport, J. M., J. R. Ennen, and A. F. Scott. 2005. New records for amphibians from counties in south-central Tennessee.  Herpetol. Rev. 36:209-210.

Marshall County 

Haislip, N.  2007.  Geographic distribution.  Acris crepitans.  Herpetol. Rev. 38:473.

Abbey-Carlton, C., S. Fletcher, and B. Brinkman. 2001. Geographic distribution. Acris crepitans. Herpetol. Rev. 32:269.

Rhea County 

Hedrick, D.  2009.  Geographic distribution. Acris crepitans.  Herpetol. Rev. 40:107. 

Tipton County 

Ennen, J.R. and B.R. Krieser.  2008.  Geographic distribution. Acris crepitans.  Herpetol. Rev. 39:104.

Trousdale County

Glorioso, B.M. and J. Pruett.  2007.  New records for amphibians and reptiles from Trousdale County, Tennessee.  Herpetol. Rev. 38: 247-248.

Williamson County

English, R., and A. English. 2000. Geographic distribution. Acris crepitans.  Herpetol. Rev. 31:249.