Species Information

Kingdom: Animalia
  Phylum: Craniata
    Class: Amphibia
      Order: Anura
        Family: Ranidae
          Genus: Lithobates
            Species: blairi

Plains Leopard Frog - Lithobates blairi

Plains Leopard Frog

Image courtesy of Biota Information System of New Mexico

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Species Extent (New Mexico)

General Description

Plains Leopard Frog (Lithobates blairi) is a relatively large (11 cm) frog that is widespread across the Great Plains from Kentucky west to Arizona and South Dakota south to Texas. It is found in aquatic habitat types in prairies and desert grasslands. Individuals have been observed to move up to 8 km between ponds from one year to the next.

Status

Global Rank: G5

State Rank: S4

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BLM Status: BLM WATCH

SWAP Status: SGCN

NMRP Strategy Status:

Observations in Natural Heritage New Mexico Database

Number of Subpopulations: 12

Number of Mapped Locations: 21

Number of Observations: 27

Observation date range: 06-01-2006 to 07-17-2019

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