Eleutherodactylus planirostris
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Greenhouse Frog
These tiny little frogs are native to the West Indies, but are thriving as an introduced species in Florida. I found several under rocks in the front yard of my mother-in-law's house in Coral Gables.
This little frogster was under the same front-yard rock as the one in the picture from two years ago. I'm not sure how long they live, but I doubt whether it's the same one.
I keep turning over logs and bits of bark and coral rocks in South Florida, and startled little greenhouse frogs keep leaping out. They have very good camouflage when sitting still in the leaf litter.
Printed references:
- Ashton, R. E. Jr., Ashton, P. S. 1988. Handbook of Reptiles and Amphibians of Florida, Part Three: The Amphibians
- Bartlett, R. D., Bartlett, P. B. 1999. A Field Guide to Florida Reptiles and Amphibians
- Behler, J. L., King, F. W. 1979. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles & Amphibians
- Carmichael, P., Williams, W. 1991. Florida's Fabulous Reptiles & Amphibians
- Conant, R., Collins, J. T. 1998. Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Third Edition, expanded
- Crother, B. I. (ed.) 2017. Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding, Eighth Edition
- Elliott, L., Gerhardt, C. and Davidson, C. 2009. The Frogs and Toads of North America