Sierran treefrogs at Point Reyes National Seashore
Common Name
Sierran Treefrog; Pacific Chorus Frog
Scientific Name
Pseudacris sierra
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Amphibia
Order
Anura
Family
Hylidae
Genus
Pseudacris
Subject
Places; Nature sounds; Amphibians
Spatial Coverage
Point Reyes National Seashore (Calif.); Marin County (Calif.); California
Creator
Rice, Jeff
Media Rights Management
Audio file copyright 2010, the Western Soundscape Archive at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library, http://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
Date
2010-02-02
Type
Sound
Format
video/mp4
Digitization Specifications
Compressed from .wav format into .mp4 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
Sierran treefrogs (previously known as pacific chorus frogs) call from a marsh at Point Reyes National Seashore
Recorded at Olema Marsh; temperature was approximately 45 degrees Fahrenheit; skies partly cloudy with high humidity and low-hanging fog under a partially full moon; road noise and other anthropogenic sounds in background; these frogs are commonly referred to as pacific chorus frogs, but the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles has given the species in this region the name Sierran Treefrog (Pseudacris sierra), while the Center for North American Herpetology refers to them as the Sierra Chorus Frog (Pseudacris sierra); scientists have divided pacific chorus frogs into three distinct species, P. sierra, P. regilla and P. hypochondriaca, that occur in different geographic regions
