Chorus frog

Chorus frog
Pseudacris ocularis, little grass frog
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Hylidae
Subfamily:	Acrisinae
Genus:	Pseudacris Fitzinger, 1843
Synonyms
Chorophilus Baird, 1854 Helocaetes Baird, 1854 Heloecetes Baird, 1859 (misspelling) Hyliola Mocquard, 1899 Limnaoedus Mittleman & List, 1953 Parapseudacris Hardy & Burrows, 1986 Pseudacris (Pycnacris) Fouquette & Dubois, 2014

Pseudacris (the chorus frogs) is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae. They live in North America. They live as far west as the Pacific coast and as far east as the Atlantic coast.

The name comes from the Greek word pseudes (false) and akris (locust). Scientists might have named these frogs false-locust because the frog's voices sound like locust's voices: a repeated rasping trill sound. They also might have named these frogs false-Acris because there is another frog genus called Acris.^[1]

1. ↑ Dodd, C. Kenneth (2013). Frogs of the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-4214-0633-6.