List of U.S. state amphibians
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This is a list of official U.S. state amphibians. State amphibians are designated by tradition or the respective state legislatures.[1]
| State | State amphibian | Binomial nomenclature |
Image | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Red Hills Salamander | Phaeognathus hubrichti |  |
2000[2] |
| Arizona | Arizona Tree Frog | Hyla eximia |  |
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| Georgia | American Green Tree Frog | Hyla cinerea |  |
2005 |
| Illinois | Eastern Tiger Salamander | Ambystoma tigrinum |  |
2005 |
| Iowa | North American Bullfrog | Rana catesbeiana |  |
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| Kansas | Barred Tiger Salamander | Ambystoma mavortium |  |
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| Louisiana | American Green Tree Frog | Hyla cinerea | |
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| Minnesota | Northern Leopard Frog | Rana pipiens |  |
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| Missouri | North American Bullfrog | Rana catesbeiana | |
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| New Hampshire | Red-spotted Newt | Notophthalmus viridescens |  |
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| New Mexico | New Mexico Spadefoot Toad | Spea multiplicata |  |
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| New York | Wood Frog | Rana Sylvatica | .jpg) |
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| Oklahoma | North American Bullfrog | Rana catesbeiana | |
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| South Carolina | Spotted Salamander | Ambystoma maculatum |  |
1999[3] |
| Tennessee | Tennessee Cave Salamander | Gyrinophilus palleucus | ||
| Texas | Texas Toad | Bufo speciosus |  |
2009[4] |
| Vermont | Northern Leopard Frog | Rana pipiens | |
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| Washington | Pacific Tree Frog | Pseudacris regilla |  |
2007[5] |
| Commonwealth | Amphibian | Binomial nomenclature |
Image | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puerto Rico | Common Coquí | Eleutherodactylus coqui |  |
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[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Official State Amphibians NetState.com, accessed April 21, 2006.
- ^ "Official Alabama State Amphibian". Alabama Emblems, Symbols and Honors. Alabama Department of Archives & History. 2003-11-06. http://www.archives.state.al.us/emblems/st_amphib.html. Retrieved 2007-03-18.
- ^ State of South Carolina Code of Laws. "Title 1, Chapter 1, Article 9, Section 1-1-699". http://www.scstatehouse.net/code/t01c001.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-15.
- ^ "Students Lauded for Naming Official State Amphibian of Texas" (Press release). Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. 2009-12-04. http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/newsmedia/releases/?req=20091204a&nrtype=all&nrspan=&nrsearch=. Retrieved 2010-04-26.
- ^ State Symbols of Washington. "State symbols". Archived from the original on 2007-11-15. http://web.archive.org/web/20071115204306/http://www.leg.wa.gov/Legislature/StateSymbols/. Retrieved 2007-11-27.
