Gray Treefrog (Hyla versicolor)
The Gray Treefrog has flexible toes with large, sticky toe pads, making it an excellent climber. These frogs are usually walkers
and climbers rather than jumpers.
Gray Treefrog
Hyla versicolor
Summary:Relatively common in the Indiana counties, and known from Will, Cook, and DuPage Counties in Illinois. The distribution of the two cryptic tree frog species is the subject of ongoing studies.
Gray Treefrog
Hyla chrysoscelis and Hyla versicolor
Listen to the Call of the Cope's Gray Treefrog
Listen to the Call of the Common Gray Treefrog ...
Gray Treefrog
Hyla versicolor x chrysoscelis
photo by Jeff Humphries ...
Cope's Gray Treefrogs - Hyla chrysoscelis
Common Gray Treefrogs - Hyla versicolor
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Gray Treefrog
The Gray Treefrog (classified by scientists as Hyla versicolor) is usually between 1 to 2.5 inches in length. Its most interesting feature may be its color: despite the name, Gray Treefrogs are not always gray! ...
Gray Treefrog Stats
Scientific Name: Hyla versicolor
Family: Hylidae
Adult Size: From 1½ to 2 inches in total length.
Range: The gray treefrog is native to the United States and Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains.
Gray treefrogs breed in May when they move to breeding ponds. Clusters of up to 30 eggs are attached to vegetation near the surface of the water. The eggs hatch in three to six days. Tadpoles transform within two months.
RangeThe gray treefrog can be found from Manitoba east to Maine and south to northern Florida and central Texas.
Habitat The gray treefrog lives in moist, deciduous woodlands and swamps near water. It is also found in pine barrens.
Gray Treefrog (RealAudio sound sample)
The male's advertisement call is a short, melodic trill lasting about one-half second and repeated every few seconds.
The Gray Treefrog Complex
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Many people think of tree frogs as tropical, but we have two nearly identical species of tree frogs in the Chicago Region.
Cope's Gray Treefrog
(Hyla chrysoscelis)
DESCRIPTION: 1 1/4 to 2 inches. Their size is predominantly larger in comparison with other members of the Treefrog family. Normally grey and subject to many color derivations. Light spots below eyes.
Cope's Gray Treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis)
The two species of Gray Treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis and H. versicolor) can be told apart by voice, but not by sight.
Cope's Gray Treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis)
Photos by J.D. Willson unless otherwise noted
Hear call ...
Gray Treefrog (Hyla versicolor and H. chrysoscelis)
DESCRIPTION: Tree frogs have large, sticky toe pads. Color can change gray, green, or brown, according to environment or activity. Underside of hind legs yellow. 1 1/2 to 2 inches long.
Cope's Gray Treefrog
Hyla chrysoscelis
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Status No status assigned in Minnesota. Description The Cope's gray treefrog is one of two look alike species of treefrog in Minnesota. This species is about 2 inches long snout to vent.
Gray treefrog camouflaged
HABITAT BREEDING
Gray treefrogs prefer ponds with medium to long hydroperiods (semi-permanent to permanent) in deciduous woodlands (Paton and Egan 2001).
Gray Treefrog
Hyla versicolor
Statewide except Martha's Vineyard Island and Nantucket County.
The Gray Treefrog occurs statewide, with the exception of apparent absence from the former savannah and prairie habitats of southeastern Wisconsin, where it is replaced by the look-alike species Cope's Gray Treefrog, H. chrysoscelis.
The Cope's Gray Treefrog, Hyla chrysoscelis, is found in temporary ponds in the peninsula and north Florida. Its back is two shades of gray with a darker gray blotch in the middle.
Gray Treefrogs are small to medium sized frogs reaching lengths of about 2 inches. An individual frog can be gray or green, as shown here, or various shades of brown or even nearly white.
Gray Treefrog
(Hyla versicolor - Hyla chrysocelis)
Pine Woods Treefrog
(Hyla femoralis) ...
Gray Treefrog
Hyla versicolor
Species of Gray Treefrog Complex (tetraploid). Highly variable and can change colors, but usually shades of green and/or gray. Toe pads sticky. Skin granular. Inside of legs bright yellowish-orange. White spot under eye.
Cope's Gray Treefrog
Hyla chrysoscelis
Up to 2.5 inches (62 mm). Usually gray with moist, warty skin. Sticky toe pads. Bright orange or yellow patches concealed under thighs. Light mark under eye.
Northern Gray Treefrog - Hyla versicolor
Description: 1 ¼ - 2 3/16" (3.2-5.6 cm). Color gray or green. Rough warty skin. Distinct light spot can be found below eye. Bright orange color can be found on inside of hind legs.
Cope's gray treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis)
Cow Knob salamander (Plethodon punctatus)
Cumberland Plateau salamander (Plethodon kentucki)
dwarf waterdog (Necturus punctatus punctatus)
eastern cricket frog (Acris crepitans crepitans) ...
The Gray Tree Frog (Hyla versicolor), written more commonly as one word as Gray Treefrog, is a species of small arboreal frog native to much of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada.
Main Viewing Regions
Virginia
RECORD YOUR WILDLIFE ...
Test your observation skills and try to find all the treefrogs! Clutching leaves and reeds, this exhibit showcases several treefrogs found in North Carolina-green treefrog and Cope’s gray treefrog.
Reptile ...
 See also: Treefrog, Peeper, Spring Peeper, Toad, Chorus Frog
  
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