Southern chorus frog

{{Short description|Species of amphibian}}

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| name = Southern chorus frog

| image = Pseudacris nigrita02.jpg

| status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1

| taxon = Pseudacris nigrita

| authority = (LeConte, 1825)

| synonyms = Rana nigrita LeConte, 1825
Cystignathus nigritus Holbrook, 1842|status_ref={{cite iucn |author=IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group |date=2014 |title=Pseudacris nigrita |volume=2014 |page=e.T55894A64733885 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T55894A64733885.en |access-date=16 November 2021}}

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The southern chorus frog (Pseudacris nigrita) is a species of frog in the family Hylidae, endemic to the southeastern United States. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate grassland, shrub-dominated wetlands, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, ponds, open excavations, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches.

It is threatened by habitat loss.{{Citation needed|date=May 2021}}

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