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Search tool	Example of search string in box	What that means to the database
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	Hyl*	Will find all uses of "Hyl . . ." anywhere in a record: e.g., Hylarana, Hyla, Hylidae, Hylinae, Hylaedactyla.
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	*Hyla	Will find all uses of ". . . hyla" anywhere in a record: e.g., Hyla, Hylidae, Plectrohyla, Ptychadena hylaea, Adenomera hylaedactyla
Single word	Hyla	Will find all records that contain stand-alone uses of Hyla: e.g., Hyla, Hyla arenicolor
Strings of words without quotation marks	Lithobates pipiens	Interprets this as "Lithobates OR pipiens" so will find the union of all records that contain either "Lithobates" or "pipiens": e.g., Lithobates omiltemanus, Hylorana pipiens
Strings of word with quotation marks	"Lithobates pipiens"	Interprets this as "Lithobates AND pipiens" so will return all records that have the character string "Lithobates pipiens" anywhere within a record: e.g., all members of the Lithobates pipiens complex.
AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND	Lithobates AND pipiens	Same as "Lithobates pipiens"
OR statement. Means that the results of the search will all records that have either of the terms held together by an OR	Lithobates OR "Costa Rica"	Recovers all records that contain the word "Lithobates" or "Costa Rica": 402 records inasmuch as this will include all records for the entire amphibian fauna of Costa Rica
Combining Boolean operators within the Basic Search box (AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks)	Lithobates AND "Costa Rica" NOT forreri	Recovers only records that contain the word Lithobates AND "Costa Rica", but excludes any record that contains the word "forreri" in any part of the record: 9 records
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Acris blanchardi Harper, 1947

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Acris > Species: Acris blanchardi

Acris gryllus blanchardi Harper, 1947, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 60: 39. Holotype: CM 26607, by original designation. Type locality: "meadow near Smallen's Cave, Ozark, Christian County, Missouri", USA.

Hyla ocularis blanchardi — Mittleman, 1947, Am. Midl. Nat., 38: 472.

Acris gryllus paludicola Burger, Smith, and Smith, 1949, J. Tennessee Acad. Sci., 24: 131. Holotype: UIMNH 872, by original designation. Type locality: "five miles west of Sabine Pass in Jefferson County, Texas", USA. Synonymy and rejection of distinctiveness by Gamble, Berendzen, Shaffer, Starkey, and Simons, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 48: 112–125.

Acris crepitans blanchardi — Conant, 1958, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am.: 277.

Acris crepitans paludicola — Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 2; Rose, Simpson, Forstner, McHenry, and Williams, 2006, J. Herpetol., 40: 428–434.

Acris blanchardi — Gamble, Berendzen, Shaffer, Starkey, and Simons, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 48: 112.

Common Names

Blanchard's Cricket Frog (Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 68; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 176; Stebbins, 1966, Field Guide W. North Am. Rept. Amph.: 66; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 318; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 10; Frank and Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 16; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 51; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 11; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 6; Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 219; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 7; Frost, McDiarmid, Mendelson, and Green, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 11; Frost, Lemmon, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 6).

Blanchard Cricket Frog (Stebbins, 1985, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 2: 79).

Texas Coast Cricket Frog (Acris crepitans paludicola [no longer recognized]: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 68).

Coastal Cricket Frog (Acris crepitans paludicola [no longer recognized]: Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 176; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 10; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 51; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 11; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 6; Frost, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 2).

Distribution

Western West Virginia north to central Michigan and adjacent southeastern Ontario (Canada), west through Ohio, northern Kentucky, western Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, southern Wisconsin, southern Minnesota and southeastern South Dakota, thence south through Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, eastern Colorado and eastern New Mexico in the Pecos River valley through Texas to the Rio Grande, with a few records on the Mexican side of the river and on the upper Río Sabinas in northeastern Coahuila, Mexico; except for records in the Delta of Mississippi, and northern Kentucky, the species is found north of the Ohio River and west of the Mississippi River, USA. In Canada, it is restricted to Point Pelee (formerly) and Pelee Island in extreme southwestern Ontario, Canada.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Canada, Mexico, United States of America, United States of America - Arkansas, United States of America - Colorado, United States of America - Illinois, United States of America - Indiana, United States of America - Iowa, United States of America - Kansas, United States of America - Kentucky, United States of America - Louisiana, United States of America - Michigan, United States of America - Minnesota, United States of America - Missouri, United States of America - Nebraska, United States of America - New Mexico, United States of America - Ohio, United States of America - Oklahoma, United States of America - South Dakota, United States of America - Texas, United States of America - West Virginia, United States of America - Wisconsin

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Acris crepitans crepitans on the basis of molecular evidence by Gamble, Berendzen, Shaffer, Starkey, and Simons, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 48: 112–125. The morphological distinctiveness of Acris crepitans blanchardi from Acris crepitans crepitans had been rejected by McCallum and Trauth, 2006, Zootaxa, 1104: 1–21. McCallum, 2010, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 5: 119–130, reported on the modeled effects on range by climate change. Lemos-Espinal and Smith, 2007, Anf. Rept. Coahuila México: 44–45, provided an account (as Acris crepitans) for Coahuila, Mexico. Dodd, 2013, Frogs U.S. and Canada, 1: 205–219, provided an account that summarized the literature of the species. Altig and McDiarmid, 2015, Handb. Larval Amph. US and Canada: 190–191, provided an account of larval morphology and biology. Painter, Stuart, Giermakowski, and Pierce, 2017, Western Wildlife, 4: 35, commented on the status and county range in New Mexico, USA.

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