Relict leopard frogs and canyon treefrogs

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Title Relict leopard frogs and canyon treefrogs
Common Name Relict Leopard Frog; Canyon Treefrog
Scientific Name Rana onca
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Craniata
Class Amphibia
Order Anura
Family Ranidae
Genus Rana
Subject Places; Amphibians; Nature sounds
Spatial Coverage Lake Mead National Recreation Area (Ariz. and Nev.); Mohave County (Ariz.); Arizona
Frog Call Breeding Season: November-June
Creator Rice, Jeff
Media Rights Management Audio file copyright 2008, the Western Soundscape Archive at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library, Westernsoundscape.org. Use of this audio file is allowed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
Publisher Western Soundscape Archive; University of Utah
Contributors Drake, Dana
Date 2008-03-20
Type Sound
Format video/mp4
Digitization Specifications Compressed from .wav format into .mp3 delivery format
Contributing Institution J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112; Ecological and animal data provided by NatureServe. NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available http://www.natureserve.org/explorer
Description The faint chuckling calls of relict leopard frogs are joined intermittently by the louder, bleating calls of canyon treefrogs. Frogs call in a narrow canyon at approximately 10 PM
Photo Rights Management Photo copyright 2007, Dana Drake. All rights reserved
Note Relict leopard frogs are considered "Endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and are candidates for listing under the United States Endangered Species Act; their range is currently restricted to a few small areas in Nevada and Arizona; Air temperature was 19.8 degrees Celsius, winds were less than 2kmph, cloud cover was 0%, and the water temperature was 5 degrees Celsius; Recordings were made using Sennheiser MKH30 and MKH40 microphones recording in an MS pattern to a Sound Devices 722 recorder; Sampling rate was 24 bit/44.1 kHz; Local Time: 10:00 PM
Full Nature Serve Report http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/servlet/NatureServe?searchSpeciesUid=ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.106274
ARK ark:/87278/s6cg03dc
Setname uu_wss
ID 1117877
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6cg03dc