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Pseudacris triseriata (Wied-Neuwied, 1838) Midland Chorus Frog, Western Chorus Frog, Striped Chorus Frog	family: Hylidae subfamily: Hylinae genus: Pseudacris
Species Description: Wied-Neuwied, M. A. P., Prinz zu. 1838. Reise in das Innere Nord-Amerika in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834. Volume 1, Heft 1–6. Coblenz: Hoelscher.
Etymology: Pseudacris comes from the Greek words pseudos, meaning “lie,” and akris, meaning “locust.” The species epithet triseriata refers to the three distinct stripes on the dorsum, as tri is Latin for “three” and seriata means “lines” or “serrations” in Latin (INHS Herpetology Collection).

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Conservation Status (definitions)

IUCN Red List Status Account	Least Concern (LC)
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CITES	No CITES Listing
National Status	None
Regional Status	None
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bookcover The following account is modified from Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species, edited by Michael Lannoo (©2005 by the Regents of the University of California), used with permission of University of California Press. The book is available from UC Press.

Pseudacris triseriata (Wied, 1838)
Western Chorus Frog

Emily Moriarty¹
Michael J. Lannoo²

The four "subspecies" of the Pseudacris triseriata complex currently recognized by Conant and Collins (1998), including P. feriarum (southeastern chorus frogs), were initially characterized based on color pattern and morphological variation across their geographic distribution (Smith and Smith, 1952; Harper, 1955; Smith, 1956). Platz and Forester (1988) and Platz (1989) elevated the "subspecies" to specific status using morphometric data and advertisement call characters. However, recent phylogenetic analyses based on DNA sequence data indicate that the currently drawn range borders of subspecies in the triseriata complex do not reflect the distributions of true evolutionary lineages (Moriarty and Cannatella, in preparation). Because the identity and distributions of these anurans have not been resolved, we consider the members of this group together under a Pseudacris triseriata complex account.

¹Emily Moriarty
University of Texas
Texas Memorial Museum
2400 Trinity
Austin, Texas 78705
chorusfrog@mail.utexas.edu

²Michael J. Lannoo
Muncie Center for Medical Education
Indiana University School of Medicine
MT 201
Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana 47306
mlannoo@bsu.edu

Literature references for Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species, edited by Michael Lannoo, are here.

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