Acris gryllus (LeConte, 1825)
Rana gryllus LeConte, 1825, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York, 1: 282. Syntypes: Not designated; thought to include USNM 3564 (7 specimens) and 5909 (7 specimens) by Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 74; see discussion by Dunn, 1938, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 90: 153-154. Type locality: Not designated. Considered to be "Riceboro, [Liberty County,] Georgia", USA, by Dunn, 1938, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 90: 153, who noted that the data with the type is "Georgia", USA.
Rana dorsalis Harlan, 1827, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 5: 340. Syntypes: ANSP, now lost according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 3. Type locality: "Lower 100 miles of the Saint John's River", Florida, USA. Synonymy by De Kay, 1842, Zool. New York, 1: 70; Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 71; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 336.
Hylodes gryllus — Holbrook, 1838, N. Am. Herpetol., 2: 75.
Acris gryllus — Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 507.
Acris acheta Baird, 1854, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7: 59. Holotype: Presumably originally ANSP or USNM, not subsequently located. Type locality: "Key West [, Monroe County], Florida", USA. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 336.
Acris gryllus gryllus — Cope, 1875, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 1: 30.
Acris gryllus var. bufonia Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 337. Holotype: BMNH 45.11.9.35, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 2. Type locality: "New Orleans", Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Junior secondary homonym of Hyla bufonia Spix, 1824, when in Hyla.
Acris gryllus achetae — Garman, 1884, Bull. Essex Inst., 16: 43. by implication and misspelling.
Acris gryllus dorsalis — Netting and Goin, 1945, Q. J. Florida Acad. Sci., 8: 305.
English Names
Savannah Cricket (Acris gryllus: LeConte, 1825, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York, 1: 282; LeConte, 1855, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7: 426).
Savannah Cricket Frog (Acris gryllus: Wood, 1863, Illust. Nat. Hist., 3: 168).
Cricket Frog (Acris gryllus: Rhoads, 1895, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 47: 396; Dickerson, 1906, The Frog Book: 153; Brimley, 1907, J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc., 23: 158; Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: x; Smith, 1934, Am. Midl. Nat., 15: 457; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 67; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 176).
Southern Cricket Frog (Acris gryllus: Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 10; 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; 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).
Florida Cricket Frog (Acris gryllus dorsalis: 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; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 317; 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; 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).
Savannah Cricket (Acris gryllus gryllus: Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 23).
Southeastern Cricket Frog (Acris gryllus: Viosca, 1949, Pop. Sci. Bull., Louisiana Acad. Sci., 1: 10).
Southern Cricket Frog (Acris gryllus gryllus: 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: 317; 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; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 7).
Coastal Plain Cricket Frog (Acris gryllus gryllus: 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; Frost, McDiarmid, Mendelson, and Green, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 11).
Distribution
Southeastern USA from southeastern Louisiana and southwestern Tennessee east throughout all of Mississippi to southern Georgia, then northeast along the coastal plain to southeastern Virginia and throughout peninsular Florida.
Comment
See entry for Acris ocularis in the synonymy of Pseudacris ocularis for relevant nomenclatural comment. Gamble, Berendzen, Shaffer, Starkey, and Simons, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 48: 112-125, reported on phylogeographic structure.
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