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Ascaphus truei
Ascaphus truei
Western Tailed Frog 		Photographer: William Flaxington

ID: 0000 0000 0901 0628 (2001-09-24)

Copyright © 2006 William Flaxington

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  • date of photo  Mar 30, 2001
  • location  Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park (Del Norte County, California, US)
  • family Ascaphidae
  • habitat  Redwood Forest
  • notes   Huge eyes with vertical pupils, and wide round mouth. Rough skin and large fifth toe on hind feet. Male with short-tail copulatory organ, and dark palmar and forearm tubercles. Measured: SVL 38 mm (1½ in.), tail organ measured 6 mm (¼ in.). Discovered by lantern walking, seen on moss covered tree trunk roughly 3 m (10 ft.) from flowing creek.
  • photo category: Animal - Amphibian

    • MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS ANIMAL
  • common names   Coastal Tailed Frog, Western Tailed Frog (AW ) Western Tailed Frog (photographer)
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