Guess it's that time of year again...

[Cliygh and Mia 2]

He seems a little pale for a toadpole, at least in my experience?? All the ones I've seen nearby have remained very very dark even after growing legs. Like never any lighter than a blackish olive color. He could just be a little pasty though

Yeah, that's why I was saying, when I googled American toad tadpoles, all of them except for one were very dark. This led me to for some crazy reason to now think it's a southern leopard frog tadpole, does anybody know what southern leopard tads look like?

[UncleChester]

Yeah, that's why I was saying, when I googled American toad tadpoles, all of them except for one were very dark. This led me to for some crazy reason to now think it's a southern leopard frog tadpole, does anybody know what southern leopard tads look like?

The vent location will separate toads from leopards. Details in the links below:

A complex tadpole key: USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center "Tadpoles of the United States and Canada: A Tutorial and Key"
The tutorial for the above key (explains the anatomy bits): North American Tadpoles
A small chart of common tads with brief descriptions: Tadpole Identification Table

Here's a dichotomous key for larva of Indiana http://mnfi.anr.msu.edu/vernalpools/...al_Key_IND.pdf. You'll have enough overlap that it should still be useful. It has a 'quick guide' at the end as well as tons of other detail.

The Southern Leopard is also in the SEARMIT tadpole guide (lots of pictures): http://fl.biology.usgs.gov/armi/Guid...dpoleGuide.pdf

[Cliygh and Mia 2]

Okay, gone back to thinking it being a toad tadpole, just very weirdly colored

[Cliygh and Mia 2]

Okay, last one I promise! Last night I caught one last Fowler's Toadlet, it looks like an exact clone of Snowball, except larger by a centimeter or so. I have it in another separate enclosure that the others and names are most welcome! (Oh, and I finally came up with a name for the tadpole, Waterball, to keep the theme)

[gut]

i'd love to see more pics if you're thinking about taking any!!

[Cliygh and Mia 2]

It is thunder storming right now so I can't go to the shed, but once it stops, I will go take photos of still nameless toadlet

[Cliygh and Mia 2]

Okay, I think that I have figured out the tadpole identity. When some water evaporated and I put more in, I noticed that the tadpole has a triangle between its eyes. I thought that would be odd for a toadpole, so I did some more research, and my searching has led me to believe that the tadpole is..An eastern (Or southern) cricket frog tadpole! Only those two frogs in my range have triangles on their heads, and now that I think about it, when I went herping to find it, the pond next to it I had seen a cricket frog leap from its cover when we walked past, so I think it very likely that's what I have