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Title: Amphibians, New York State, 2000

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Dates

  • Issued: 2000
  • Coverage: 2000

Summary

This data set portrays the distribution of 10 selected amphibians in New York State, based on historical literature and museum records from current and historical sources. The amphibians included are northern cricket frog, American toad, Cope's gray treefrog, gray treefrog, eastern newt, eastern red-backed salamander, northern two-lined salamander, mudpuppy, western lesser siren, and spring peeper. These data are intended for geographic display and analysis at the national level, and for large regional areas. The data should be displayed and analyzed at scales appropriate for 1:2,000,000-scale data. No responsibility is assumed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the use of these data.

Subjects

  • New York
  • Amphibians
  • Frogs
  • Toads
  • Newts
  • Treefrogs
  • Mudpuppies
  • Bufonidae
  • Bufo americanus
  • American toad
  • Hylidae
  • Acris crepitans
  • northern cricket frog
  • cricket frog
  • Hyla versicolor
  • gray treefrog
  • Hyla chrysoscelis
  • Copes gray treefrog
  • Pseudacris crucifer
  • spring peeper
  • Plethodontidae
  • Plethodon cinereus
  • red-backed salamander
  • eastern red-backed salamander
  • redback salamander
  • Eurycea bislineata
  • northern two-lined salamander
  • two-lined salamander
  • Proteidae
  • Necturus maculosus
  • mudpuppy
  • Salamandridae
  • Notophthalmus viridescens
  • eastern newt
  • red-spotted newt
  • Sirenidae
  • Siren intermedia
  • western lesser siren
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-79.763235, -71.869987, 45.006139, 40.506003)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-79.763235, -71.869987, 45.006139, 40.506003)

Provider

CUGIR, Cornell University

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Priya Nanjappa, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laura (Leininger) Blackburn, Ball State University, Dr. Michael J. Lannoo, Ph.D., Indiana University School of Medicine. Amphibians, New York State, 2000. Polygon data. https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/catalog/cugir-007321

Format

Shapefile