DESCRIPTION 



The animal is green dorsally with a narrow 

 yellow or white stripe along the dorsolateral 

 edge. Belly is white. A lavender or plum-colored 

 band extends along the sides from the nostrils 

 to the hind limbs. Axilla and normally con- 

 cealed undersides of hind limbs are light orange 

 or orange spotted. Adults are 30 to 50 mm 

 (snout-vent length). 



Illustrated in color in Dickerson (1969), 

 Leviton (1972), Conant (1975), Means and 

 Longden (1976), and Means (1976b). Black 

 and white photographs in Wright and Wright 

 (1949). Eggs illustrated by Livezey and Wright 

 (1947). Noble and Noble (1923) illustrated the 

 tadpole stages. Gosner and Black (1967) and 

 Means and Longden (1976) provide audiospec- 

 trograms of the breeding call. 



RANGE 



The species distribution has three principal 

 foci: 1) the Pine Barrens of central New Jersey; 



2) the upper Coastal Plain and parts of the lower 

 Coastal Plain of North and South Carolina; and 



3) Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and Walton counties in 

 the western Florida Panhandle. A single speci- 

 men from Richmond County, Georgia, and the 

 holotype from Anderson, South Carolina, may 

 represent a fourth distributional center. There 

 is no indication that the distribution is contin- 

 uous between New Jersey and Florida. 



Although individual populations have been 

 extirpated and total numbers have no doubt 

 been reduced, the geographic distribution has 

 probably changed little in historic times. 



RANGE MAP 



Known distribution is presented on an ac- 

 companying map. 



STATES/COUNTIES 



Florida Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton. 



Georgia Richmond (?). 



New Jersey Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, 

 . Cape May, Cumberland, Glouces- 

 ter, Middlesex, Monmouth, 

 Ocean, Salem. 



N. Carolina Bladen, Cumberland, Duplin, 

 Harnett, Hoke, Johnston, Jones, 

 Lee, Lenoir, Moore, Onslow, 

 Pende, Richmond, Sampson, 

 Scotland, Wayne. 



Pennsylvania Delaware (?) 



S. Carolina Chesterfield. 



HABITAT 



Only the breeding habitat is known. Chorus- 

 ing Pine Barrens treefrogs usually associate with 

 evergreen shrubs in sphagnaceous seepage bogs 

 on hillsides below pine-oak ridges. In New Jer- 

 sey and North Carolina, Atlantic white cedar 

 [Chamaecyparis thyoides) is a dominant tree 

 species (Wright and Wright 1949). Means and 

 Longden (1976) note the absence of cedar but 

 the constant dominance of titi trees (Cliftonia 

 and Cyrilla) in Florida localities. The breeding 

 habitat can best be characterized as shrubby 

 bogs. 



Means and Longden (1976) describe the 

 habitat of the Pine Barrens treefrog in Florida, 

 and Means (1976b) provides photographs of 

 Florida breeding localities. Habitat photographs 

 for New Jersey and North Carolina are in Noble 

 and Noble (1923) and Wright (1932). 



FOOD AND FORAGING BEHAVIOR 



Noble and Noble (1923) reported that the 

 food habits are not specialized. The treefrogs 

 eat anything of small size moving in their vi- 

 cinity, including grasshoppers, beetles, and ants. 

 Tadpoles feed on algae (Gosner 1959). 



SHELTER REQUIREMENTS 



Nothing is known about specific require- 

 ments. Probably like other small treefrogs, they 

 use small crevices or the undersides of leaves 

 during the day, and forage at night. 



NESTING OR BEDDING 



Spawning occurs in sphagnaceous shrub 

 bogs (see Habitat, above). 



RITUAL REQUIREMENTS 



Males call during the breeding season from 

 low bushes and occasionally from the ground. 



