Frogs in Mississippi

With its hot, humid summers and mild winters, Mississippi is an ideal home to several frog species.

The only poisonous frog in Mississippi is the pickerel frog.

Frogs and Toads of Mississippi

Rain Frogs

• Greenhouse Frog

Narrow-mouthed Frogs (called toads due to terrestrial behavior)

• Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toad

Tree Frogs and Their Allies

• American Green Treefrog
• Barking Treefrog
• Bird-Voiced Frog
• Blanchard’s Cricket Frog
• Cajun Chorus Frog
• Collinses’ Mountain Chorus Frog
• Cope’s Gray Tree Frog
• Gray Treefrog
• Green Tree Frog
• Northern Cricket Frog
• Ornate Chorus Frog
• Pine Woods Tree Frog
• Southern Chorus Frog
• Southern Cricket Frog
• Spring Peeper
• Squirrel Tree Frog
• Upland Chorus Frog

True Frogs

• American Bullfrog
• Bronze Frog
• Crawfish Frog
• Dusky Gopher Frog
• Gopher Frog
• Green Frog
• Pickerel Frog
• Pig Frog
• River Frog
• Southern Leopard Frog

True Toads

• American Toad
• Fowler’s Toad
• Gulf Coast Toad
• Oak Toad
• Southern Toad

Spadefoot Toads

• Eastern Spadefoot Toad