Help identifying....

[sharon]

Sorry, there aren't any pics -

I found a frog years ago during our annual monsoons. Roads were flooded, washes (dry river beds) were running full and spilling over.

This frog was HUGE. It filled a 52 oz coffee can. It was bright green, smooth skin, and a paper white belly extremely long back legs.

It was found in a very rural area so the possibility of it being someones pond escapee is pretty slim. Although with the flooding we had, it is VERY possible. Hhhhmmm, now that I'm thinking about it, it was found near a wash that starts out from the middle of town....

Still, I'm incredibly curious to figure out what this frog was. Anyone got any hints as to where I could start looking (family names?)

Sharon

 

[mark]

Sounds like a whites tree frog!

 

[sharon]

LMAO! The day I see a whites' tree frog large enough to fill a 52 oz coffee can I'm going to run for my life!!

Sharon

 

[kaysie]

That thing could eat your arm!

 

[sharon]

<blockquote><hr size=0><!-quote-!><font size=1>Kaysie Cox (Kaysie) wrote on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 - 20:15 :</font>

"That thing could eat your arm!"<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>

HUH! I LIKE frogs and amphibs and it scared me! I know that thing leaped at least 6 ft ...... from the coffee can on my bed to a pile of dirty laundry across the room....

LOL! I hope my memory isn't exagerating..

 

[kaysie]

And I thought my pacman was big!

 

[sharon]

<blockquote><hr size=0><!-quote-!><font size=1>Kaysie Cox (Kaysie) wrote on Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 00:48 :</font>

"And I thought my pacman was big!"<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>

LMBO! Who said size doesn't matter?

 

[jessica]

Well Mike I don't know if Sharon figured out what kind of toad/frog it was that she found, but the pic you have of the bull frog is great.

 

[sharon]

LOL! Its not great its scary!

Nope I still don't know exactly what kind frog it was. I do remember that it didn't have any markings on its head, no black spots, it may have had lighter spots/circles on its back though.

Truth to tell I haven't been searching all that hard. But I do plan on hitting a couple of sites that have pics of each type of frog/amphib to figure it out.

You know something else I remembered.... there was a movie, something about .... " great jumping/leaping frog of -- county " or something like that.... I'm thinking the frog I found resembled a frog in that movie..... Sorry I've been up all night, my daughter doesn't have pneumonia but she does have bronchitis and she keeps scaring the bejeeus out of us with her weird breathing... poor baby...

 

[joseph]

It sounds like a bullfrog, but I don't know of any that have pure white bellies. A pair found its way to my pond and layed eggs.

Since I'm in CA, that isn't a good thing though! They're everywhere now...

 

[mark]

although its a little late that bullfrog photos looks a lot like a marsh frog. although it appears a LOT bigger.

 

[cecilia]

definately sounds like a whites tree frog, they can grow pretty huge

 

[josh]

its either a bullfrog or a sonoran desert toad. of course, sonoran desert toads cant leap 6 feet...more like 6 inches. a bullfrog however can leap 6 feet. and bull frogs are very common in arizona..its quite sad...you very rarely see leopard frogs anymore unless you go to remote locations where bullfrogs havnt taken over yet. i did find a tarahumara frog aside a black necked garter snake. that was a very cool site indeed!