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The Brothers Grimm fairy tale The Frog Prince features a princess taking in a frog and it turning into a handsome prince. [236] In modern culture, frogs may take a comedic or hapless role, such as Mr. Toad of the 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows, Michigan J. Frog of Warner Bros. Cartoons, the Muppet Kermit the Frog and in the game Frogger. [237]
The ground-dwellers are often found under leaf litter within forests, occasionally venturing out at night to hunt. The two main shapes for the microhylids are wide bodies and narrow mouths and normal frog proportions. Those with narrow mouths generally eat termites and ants, and the others have diets typical of most frogs. Egg-laying habits are ...
Diets vary widely, with examples including Paracassina, which specializes in snails, [3] and Afrixalus fornasini, the only terrestrial frog known to prey on eggs of other species of anurans. Breeding in this family begins at the start of the rainy season, when hyperoliids congregate at breeding sites.
The European tree frog (Hyla arborea) is common in the middle and south of Europe, and its range extends into Asia and North Africa. North America has many species of the family Hylidae, including the gray tree frog ( Hyla versicolor ) and the American green tree frog ( H. cinerea ).
The Argentine horned frog (Ceratophrys ornata), also known as the Argentine wide-mouthed frog, ornate horned frog, ornate horned toad, ornate pacman frog, or just the pacman frog, is a species of frog in the family Ceratophryidae. The species is endemic to South America.
Warty frog species tend to be called toads, but the distinction between frogs and toads is informal, not from taxonomy or evolutionary history. An adult frog has a stout body, protruding eyes, anteriorly-attached tongue, limbs folded underneath, and no tail (the tail of tailed frogs is an extension of the male cloaca
The common puddle frog, puddle frog, or yellow bellied puddle frog (Occidozyga laevis) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.It has often been confused with Occidozyga sumatrana (which until 1998 was considered to be a junior synonym O. laevis [2]) and records of this species outside the Philippines likely represent that species.
Pseudis is a genus of South American frogs (swimming frogs) in the family Hylidae. [1] They are often common and frequently heard, but easily overlooked because of their camouflage and lifestyle, living in lakes, ponds, marshes and similar waters with extensive aquatic vegetation, often sitting at the surface among plants or on floating plants, but rapidly diving if disturbed.