Identification Guide for Amphibians and Reptiles in Arkansas
Acris blanchardi Blanchard’s Cricket Frog
Small. Highly variable in color: browns, grays, greens, etc. and pattern: plain, mottled, etc. Back of head with darker triangular mark, not always obvious. Upper lip with 4-5 dark bars, not always obvious. Call cricket-like clicks, or as though two small pebbles were being chipped together.
Arkansas Herpetological Atlas 2019
This species is represented by 3,766 records from 41 sources: 3,506 museum (), 0 literature (), 0 research (), and 212 observation (), with 48 additional Trauth et al. (2004) locality points remaining unsourced (). It has been museum vouchered for 74 of 75 counties (), with 1 additional counties having other forms of reported occurrence (). Years of collection range from 1855 to present.