Gray tree frog tapole identification
Hello,
I posted last week about some tadpoles I am having trouble identifying. I have attached several pictures. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The specimens in the photos were collected mid-June and early July of this year. I am from Minnesota and cannot figure out how to tell early-stage tree frogs from spring peepers. Do early-stage tree frogs lack the heavy pigment that is found in the later stages of tree frogs? Or do tree frogs have this characteristic throughout? The first picture indicates what I think is a spring peeper. It already has bud formation and lacks the heavy pigment. It was collected in June. The second and third pictures are of tadpoles also collected in June with the top tadpole zoomed in for tail fin detail. Same goes for the third and fourth picture. All were collected mid-June. I wanted to add more of tadpoles collected in July but in general, they are even smaller than those depicted here and were collected in July. So that makes me think that all of these are tree frogs except for the first image.
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