Plains Leopard Frog (Rana blairi)
Description: To 4 3/8" snout-vent length. Color brown, with darker spots. Usually a light spot on eardrum. Dorsolateral folds usually broken and offset towards center at rear.
Plains leopard frogs are one of the most abundant frogs in Missouri.
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Humans hunt these and other large native frogs to use their legs for food.
Plains Leopard Frog (Rana blairi)
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The Plains Leopard Frog was described as a distinct species in 1973 by Lauren Brown who first heard it call "a quarter mile from our home just north of Bloomington-Normal [Mclean County, IL].
Plains Leopard Frog - Rana blairi. This grassland species barely enters the southwestern part of the Chicago region, with records from Will, Kankakee, and Grundy Counties.
Plains Leopard Frog (Rana blairi): Green to brown; large dark spots between yellow dorsolateral ridges - ridges broken near hind legs; prominent jaw stripe; light spot on eardrum (tympanum).
Plains Leopard Frog
(Rana blairi)
Southern Leopard Frog
(Rana sphenocephala) ...
They look similar to the Plains Leopard Frog and the Southern Leopard Frog, but are usually duller regarding their background color and spots.
Eastern box turtles have been observed eating dead toads (Bufo spp.) [58]. An eastern box turtle in Oklahoma was observed preying upon plains leopard frog (Rana blairi) tadpoles in a dry pond [7].
 See also: Leopard Frog, Leopard, Northern Leopard Frog, Pickerel, Pickerel Frog
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