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Revision as of 22:41, 16 April 2019 by JFWT8 (talk | contribs) (→Table: Was voted by PA House to be state amphibian on 4/16/2019. Waiting for Governor Wolf's signature.)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)This is a list of official U.S. state, federal district, and territories amphibians. State amphibians are designated by tradition or the respective state legislatures.
Table
State | State amphibian | Binomial nomenclature |
Photo | Year |
---|---|---|---|---|
Alabama | Red Hills salamander | Phaeognathus hubrichti | 2000 | |
Arizona | Arizona tree frog | Hyla eximia | 1986 | |
California | California red-legged frog | Rana draytonii | 2014 | |
Colorado | Western tiger salamander | Ambystoma mavortium | 2012 | |
Georgia | American green tree frog | Hyla cinerea | 2005 | |
Idaho | Idaho giant salamander | Dicamptodon aterrimus | 2015 | |
Illinois | Eastern tiger salamander | Ambystoma tigrinum | 2005 | |
Iowa | American bullfrog | Rana catesbeiana | Unofficial | |
Kansas | Barred tiger salamander | Ambystoma mavortium | 2005 | |
Louisiana | American green tree frog | Hyla cinerea | 1993 | |
Minnesota | Northern leopard frog | Rana pipiens | Proposed in 1999 | |
Missouri | American bullfrog | Rana catesbeiana | 2005 | |
New Hampshire | Red-spotted newt | Notophthalmus viridescens | 1985 | |
New Mexico | New Mexico spadefoot toad | Spea multiplicata | 2003 | |
New York | Wood frog | Lithobates sylvaticus | Proposed in 2015 | |
North Carolina | Pine barrens tree frog (state frog) |
Hyla andersonii | 2013 | |
Marbled salamander (state salamander) |
Ambystoma opacum | 2013 | ||
Ohio | Spotted salamander (state amphibian) |
Ambystoma maculatum | 2010 | |
American bullfrog (state frog) |
Rana catesbeiana | 2010 | ||
Oklahoma | American bullfrog | Rana catesbeiana | 1997 | |
Pennsylvania | Eastern Hellbender | Cryptobranchus alleganiensis | 2019 | |
South Carolina | Spotted salamander | Ambystoma maculatum | 1999 | |
Tennessee | Tennessee cave salamander | Gyrinophilus palleucus | 1995 | |
Texas | Texas toad | Bufo speciosus | 2009 | |
Vermont | Northern leopard frog | Rana pipiens | 1998 | |
Washington | Pacific tree frog | Pseudacris regilla | 2007 |
Federal district or territory |
Amphibian | Binomial nomenclature |
Image | Year |
---|---|---|---|---|
Puerto Rico | Common coquí | Eleutherodactylus coqui | Unofficial |
See also
References
- Official State Amphibians NetState.com, accessed April 21, 2006.
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- "Minnesota State Symbols--Unofficial, Proposed, or Facetious". Minnesota Legislative Reference Library. Minnesota Legislative Reference Library. Retrieved 2013-01-05.
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- Mahoney, Bill (17 June 2015). "Senate backs the wood frog — barely". Capital New York. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
- "North Carolina State Frog". North Carolina. NETSTATE. Retrieved 2017-09-24.
- "North Carolina State Salamander". North Carolina. NETSTATE. Retrieved 2017-09-24.
- "State Amphibian - Spotted Salamander". Profile Ohio. Ohio Secretary of State. Archived from the original on 2014-04-13. Retrieved 2013-01-05.
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- State of South Carolina Code of Laws. "Title 1, Chapter 1, Article 9, Section 1-1-699". Archived from the original on 2007-06-30. Retrieved 2007-07-15.
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- "Students Lauded for Naming Official State Amphibian of Texas" (Press release). Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. 2009-12-04. Retrieved 2010-04-26.
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- State Symbols of Washington. "State symbols". Archived from the original on 2007-11-15. Retrieved 2007-11-27.