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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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Pseudacris feriarum (Baird, 1854)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Pseudacris > Species: Pseudacris feriarum

Helocaetes feriarum Baird, 1854, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7: 60. Syntypes: not stated; UMMZ 3857 (formerly USNM) and USNM 3592 (11 specimens) according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 50. Type locality: "Carlisle, [Cumberland County,] Penn[sylvani]a.", USA.. Fouquette and Dubois, 2014, Checklist N.A. Amph. Rept.: 348, regarded the original publication date to be 1856, but see Fox, 1913, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Index, 1812–1912: vii–xiv.

Pseudacris feriarum — Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 157.

Chorophilus feriarum feriarum — Cope, 1889, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 34: 341.

Chorophilus nigritus feriarum — Hay, 1892, Annu. Rep. Dept. Geol. Nat. Res. Indiana for 1891: 460.

Pseudacris feriarum — Stejneger and Barbour, 1917, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept.: 31; Noble, 1923, Am. Mus. Novit., 70: 5.

Hyla feriarum — Noble, 1923, Am. Mus. Novit., 70: 5, by implication.

Hyla (Pseudacris) feriarum — Myers, 1926 "1925", Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci., 35: 283.

Pseudacris nigrita feriarum — Stejneger and Barbour, 1933, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 3: 31; Neill, 1949, Copeia, 1949: 227-228.

Pseudacris triseriata feriarum — Schwartz, 1957, Am. Mus. Novit., 1838: 11.

Hyla (Pseudacris) triseriata feriarum — Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 86.

Pseudacris feriarum feriarum — Hedges, 1986, Syst. Zool., 35: 11.

Pseudacris (Pseudacris) feriarum — Fouquette and Dubois, 2014, Checklist N.A. Amph. Rept.: 348.

Common Names

Chorus Frog (Chorophilus feriarum: Brimley, 1915, J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc., 30: 6).

Eastern Swamp Cricket Frog (Pseudacris nigrita feriarum: Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: x).

Southeastern Chorus Frog (Pseudacris feriarum: Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 12).

Baird's Swamp-Frog (Pseudacris feriarum: Carr, 1940, Univ. Florida Biol. Sci. Ser., 3: 56).

Upland Chorus Frog (Pseudacris feriarum feriarum: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 74; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 176; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 329; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 12; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 63; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 12; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 12; Pseudacris feriarum: Frost, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 9; 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: 19; Frost, Lemmon, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 17).

Striped Winter Frog (as "Pseudacris nigrita triseriata": Viosca, 1949, Pop. Sci. Bull., Louisiana Acad. Sci., 1: 10).

Baird's Cricket Frog (Pseudacris nigrita feriarum: Neill, 1949, Copeia, 1949: 227).

Distribution

Central Pennsylvania and western Kentucky south to eastern Mississippi, southern Alabama, and southern Georgia, avoiding the coastal plain, except in South Carolina.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: United States of America, United States of America - Alabama, United States of America - Georgia, United States of America - Kentucky, United States of America - Maryland, United States of America - Mississippi, United States of America - Missouri, United States of America - North Carolina, United States of America - Pennsylvania, United States of America - South Carolina, United States of America - Tennessee, United States of America - Virginia

Endemic: United States of America

Comment

In the Pseudacris nigrita group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 106. Removed from the synonymy of Pseudacris triseriata by Hedges, 1986, Syst. Zool., 35: 1–21. Platz, 1989, Copeia, 1989: 704–712, retained Pseudacris feriarum and Pseudacris kalmi as subspecies of one species but suggested that they might also be distinct species on the basis of data presented by Hedges. Cocroft and Ryan, 1995, Animal Behav., 49: 283–303, discussed advertisement call in an evolutionary context. Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 12, considered these to be distinct species; without discussion, and this was confirmed by Lemmon, Lemmon, Collins, Lee-Yaw, and Cannatella, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 44: 1068–1082. See comment under Pseudacris kalmi. Dodd, 2013, Frogs U.S. and Canada, 1: 348–357, provided an account that summarized the relevant literature. Elliot, Gerhardt, and Davidson, 2009, Frogs and Toads of N. Am.: 88–89, provided an account, photos, and advertisement call. Altig and McDiarmid, 2015, Handb. Larval Amph. US and Canada: 210–212, provided an account of larval morphology and biology. Banker, Lemmon, Hassinger, Holland, Kortyna, Ospina, Ralicki, and Lemmon, 2020, Syst. Biol., 69: 756–773, reported on molecular phylogeography and hybridizaation with Pseudacris nigrita. Guyer and Bailey, 2023, Frogs and Toads of Alabama: 179–182, provided a detailed account for the species in Alabama, USA.

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