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They include the little brown bat, the plains spotted skunk, the Illinois chorus frog, the golden-winged warbler, Blanding’s turtle, the Mammoth Springs crayfish, two freshwater mussels and a plant called Hall’s bulrush.

The tadpoles include three native species: the leopard frog, the boreal chorus frog and the tiger salamander.

For example, when a chorus frog was introduced to all six types of parasites simultaneously, the infection rate was 42 percent lower than for frogs infected with just one type of parasite.

Pacific tree frog, or the Pacific chorus frog; 5.

The tiger salamander Ambystoma tigrinum and the Pseudacris ornata or ornate chorus frog, both winter-breeding species, were showing up earlier to breed.