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Lithobates catesbeianus

Citation:

Sexual dimorphism in bullfrogs

Author(s)
Howard, Richard D.
Pages
303-310
Year
Issue
2
Volume
62
Exposure Endpoint Type Endpoint Value Endpoint Description Range Units Sex Life Cycle Stage Location Sample Size Type
Growth Rate 5 - 20 mm/yr Both Male and Female Adult Crane Pond, E.S. George Reserve 22 Exposure Factor Datasets
Age at Sexual Maturity 1 age after metamorphosis; development of secondary sex characteristics yr Male Adult Crane Pond, E.S. George Reserve Not Reported Exposure Factor Datasets
Age at Sexual Maturity age after metamorphosis when produced eggs 1 - 2 yr Female Adult Crane Pond, E.S. George Reserve Not Reported Exposure Factor Datasets
Survival/ Mortality Non-breeding season survival; measured as # that returned to breed/# known to be alive at end of previous breeding season 8 - 21 % Both Male and Female Adult Crane Pond, E.S. George Reserve 25 - 54 Exposure Factor Datasets
Citation:

Growth responses of the bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana, fed various live foods

Author(s)
Modzelewski, Edward H., Jr, and Dudley D. Culley, Jr.
Pages
396-405
Year
Issue
4
Volume
30
Exposure Endpoint Type Endpoint Value Endpoint Description Units Sex Life Cycle Stage Sample Size Type
Food Ingestion Rate 7.1 mean % body weight consumed per day, body weight mean = 17.5 g % Not Reported Juvenile 25 Exposure Factor Datasets
Citation:

Feeding behavior of the bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana, in north central Texas

Author(s)
Carpenter, H. L. and Morrison, E. O.
Pages
188-193
Year
Volume
44
Exposure Endpoint Type Endpoint Value Endpoint Description Sex Life Cycle Stage Location Sample Size Type
Dietary Composition Insecta (92.0%), Crustacea (13.7%), Arachnida (13.7%), Diploda (5.6%), Chilopoda (1.6%), Gastropoda (4.0%), Reptilia (3.2%), Amphibia (9.6%), Aves (1.6%), Osteichthyes (4.0%) Percent occurrence in stomach contents from frogs collected during day and night Not Reported Not Reported ponds in north central TX 124 Exposure Factor Datasets
Citation:

Bullfrog food and growth at the San Joaquin Experimental Range, California

Author(s)
Cohen, Nathan W. and Walter E. Howard
Pages
223-225
Year
Volume
1958
Exposure Endpoint Type Endpoint Value Endpoint Description Sex Life Cycle Stage Location Sample Size Type
Dietary Composition Coleoptera (43.6%), Notonectidae (10.3%), Diptera (6.6%), Hymenoptera (6.3%), Locustidae (6.0%), Ephemeroptera (4.3%), Gryllidae (4.3%), Protura (3.3%), Chironomidae (2.6%), Culicidae (2.0%), Lepidoptera (1.3%), Odonata (0.3%), Gerridae (0.3%), Mantidae (0.3%), Sepsidae (0.3%), Unidentified parts (21.3%), Decomposed tissue (18.0%), Spiders (16.0%), Rocks, grass, leaves (22.0%), Chitinous material (10%), Snails, Planorbid (9.0%), Frogs (5.6%), Snails, Physid (4.7%), Small fish (4.3%), Unknown vertebrates (2.3%), Tadpoles (1.3%), Salamander (1.0%), Feathers (1.0%), Worms (0.6%), Egg sack (0.3%), Rabbit pellet (0.3%), Peromyscus (0.3%) % of stomachs in which food item was present at least once, frog weight range 10 - 200 g Not Reported Not Reported San Joaquin Experimental Range, O'Neals 300 Exposure Factor Datasets
Citation:

Ecology and management of the bullfrog

Author(s)
Bury, R. B. and J.A. Whelan
Pages
23
Publisher
U.S. Department of Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Resource Publication No. 155
Year
Exposure Endpoint Type Endpoint Value Sex Life Cycle Stage Sample Size Type
Dietary Composition Review Both Male and Female Adult Not Reported Exposure Factor Datasets
Time of Fledging or Metamorphosis Review Both Male and Female Tadpole Not Reported Exposure Factor Datasets
Time of Mating/ Laying Review Both Male and Female Adult Not Reported Exposure Factor Datasets
Citation:

Rana catesbeiana (bullfrog) cannibalism

Author(s)
Stuart, James N. and Charles W. Painter
Pages
103
Year
Issue
3
Volume
24
Exposure Endpoint Type Endpoint Value Endpoint Description Sex Life Cycle Stage Location Sample Size Type
Dietary Composition Newly metamorphosed and larval Rana (87%), Aquatic snails (5%), Adult and larval aquatic Coleoptera (3%), Adult and larval Odonata (3%), Other (2%) Total percent volume of stomach contents, frog snout-vent length range = 90 - 190 mm Both Male and Female Adult Wall Lake, southeast Catron County 138 Exposure Factor Datasets
Citation:

Differences in food of bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana) from pond and stream habitats in southwestern Oklahoma

Author(s)
Tyler, Jack. D. and Roger D. Hoestenbach, Jr.
Pages
33-38
Year
Issue
1
Volume
24
Exposure Endpoint Type Endpoint Value Endpoint Description Sex Life Cycle Stage Location Sample Size Type
Dietary Composition Gastropoda (0.7%), Arachnida (0.2%), Crustacea (12.8%), Insecta (81.5%), Chilopoda (0.2%), Osteichthyes, Cyprinidae (8.7%), Ictaluridae (10.1%), Centrarchidae (2.9%), Amphibia (0.7%), Mammalia (0.5%) Percent stomachs containing item Not Reported Not Reported ponds, Comanche and Kiowa counties 415 Exposure Factor Datasets
Citation:

Diet composition in postmetamorphic bullfrogs and green frogs: implications for interspecific predation and competition

Author(s)
Werner, Earl E., Gary A. Wellborn and Mark A. McPeek
Pages
600-607
Year
Issue
4
Volume
29
Exposure Endpoint Type Endpoint Value Endpoint Description Sex Life Cycle Stage Location Sample Size Type
Dietary Composition Coleoptera (2.3-6.5%), Wasps and bees (1.1-4.7%), Ants (0-3.5%), Homoptera (2.3-6.0%), Odonata (12.4-17.5%), Larval Lepidoptera (0.5-2.1%), Diptera (3.7-10.5%), Arachnids (0-3.2%), Miscellaneous terrestrial(10.5-11.1%), Hemiptera (19.2-23.2), Larval Odonata (3.4-5.0%), Larval Diptera (4.4-7.2%), Miscellaneous aquatic (1.9-7.4%), Frogs (5.1-14.5%), Metamorphosing Odonates (0-5.7%), Miscellaneous (1.8-7.3) Percentage of bullfrog diet items Both Male and Female Both Adults and Juveniles Turkey Marsh, Kellogg Biological Station, Kalamazoo County 23-46 Exposure Factor Datasets
Citation:

Changing respiratory importance of gills, lungs and skin during metamorphosis in the bullfrog Rana catesbeiana

Author(s)
Burggren, Warren W., and Nigel H. West
Pages
151-164
Year
Volume
47
Exposure Endpoint Type Endpoint Value Endpoint Description Error Units Sex Life Cycle Stage Sample Size Type
Surface Area 15.09 Mean total skin surface area measured by removing skin; air-breathing tadpole body weight 4.48 g +/- 0.31 SE 0.85 SE cm2 Not Reported Tadpole 20 Exposure Factor Datasets
Metabolic Rate 5.9 Mean total oxygen uptake at 20C (summed from skin and gill uptake), aquatic tadpole (stage IV-V) body weight = 3.6 g +/- 1.03 SE 0.3 SE umol O2/g/hr Not Reported Tadpole 6 Exposure Factor Datasets
Metabolic Rate 6.9 Mean total oxygen uptake at 20C (summed from skin and gill/lung uptake), air-breathing tadpole (stage XVI-XIX) body weight = 5.3 g +/- 1.2 SE 0.5 SE umol O2/g/hr Not Reported Tadpole 8 Exposure Factor Datasets
Metabolic Rate 1.1 Mean total oxygen uptake at 20C (summed from skin and lung uptake), body weight = 228.2 g +/- 70.3 SE 0.1 SE umol O2/g/hr Not Reported Adult 6 Exposure Factor Datasets
Citation:

Temperature and the balance between aerial and aquatic respiration in larvae of Rana berlandieri and Rana catesbeiana

Author(s)
Burggren, Warren W., Martin E. Feder, and Alan W. Pinder
Pages
263-273
Year
Issue
2
Volume
56
Exposure Endpoint Type Endpoint Value Endpoint Description Error Units Sex Life Cycle Stage Sample Size Type
Metabolic Rate 178.2 Mean total oxygen uptake (skin + gills + lungs) measured at 25C, tadpole mean body weight = 5.74 g 36.7 ul O2/g/hr Not Reported Tadpole 5 Exposure Factor Datasets
Citation:

Survival rate, population density and development of a naturally occurring anuran larvae (Rana catesbeiana)

Author(s)
Cecil, Stephen G. and John J. Just
Pages
447-453
Year
Volume
1979
Exposure Endpoint Type Endpoint Description Range Units Sex Life Cycle Stage Location Sample Size Type
Survival/ Mortality Range of mean survival of larvae 11.8-17.6 % Not Reported Tadpole Coldstream Pond and Fred Pond, northeast of Lexington, [38o06'23"N, 84o30'08"W] 3 sampling periods, 20,000 animals Exposure Factor Datasets
Citation:

Aerial activity oxygen consumption during metamorphosis of the bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana

Author(s)
Hillman, Stanley S. and Malcom S. Lea
Pages
407-410
Year
Issue
2
Volume
1983
Exposure Endpoint Type Endpoint Value Endpoint Description Sex Life Cycle Stage Sample Size Type
Metabolic Rate see citation figures of aerial activity oxygen consumption and body weights at different developmental stages Not Reported Tadpole 59 Exposure Factor Datasets
Citation:

The reproductive behavior of the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana)

Author(s)
Ryan, Michael J.
Pages
108-114
Year
Volume
1980
Exposure Endpoint Type Endpoint Value Endpoint Description Error Units Sex Life Cycle Stage Location Sample Size Type
Territory Size 4.1 Mean distance between territorial males m Male Adult Basking Pond, Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Morris County 31 Exposure Factor Datasets
Clutch or Litter Size 7,360 Number of eggs in a 10x10cm area used to estimate eggs per mass 741.7 SE #/egg mass Female Adult Basking Pond, Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Morris County 36 Exposure Factor Datasets
Time of Mating/ Laying Apr - June Female Adult Basking Pond, Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Morris County 36 Exposure Factor Datasets
Citation:

Emergence, breeding, hibernation, movements and transformation of the bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana, in Missouri

Author(s)
Willis, Yuell L., Don L. Moyle, and Thomas S. Baskett
Pages
30-41
Year
Volume
1956
Exposure Endpoint Type Endpoint Value Endpoint Description Range Units Sex Life Cycle Stage Location Sample Size Type
Time of Mating/ Laying May (begin), June (peak), Aug. (end) Measured as examining percentage of females with gonads in different developmental stages Female Adult farm ponds, Boone County 350 Exposure Factor Datasets
Time of Torpor or Hibernation Oct. - Mar. Not Reported Adult farm ponds, Boone County Not Reported Exposure Factor Datasets
Home Range distance of pond shoreline used > 80 - 90 ft Not Reported Adult farm ponds, Boone County 31 Exposure Factor Datasets
Time of Fledging or Metamorphosis May (begin), July-Aug. (peak), Oct. (end) Not Reported Tadpole farm ponds, Boone County Not Reported Exposure Factor Datasets
Citation:

The life period, growth and differentiation of Rana catesbeiana larvae occurring in nature

Author(s)
Viparina, Sally and John J. Just
Pages
103-109
Year
Volume
1975
Exposure Endpoint Type Endpoint Value Endpoint Description Range Units Sex Life Cycle Stage Location Sample Size Type
Body Weight - Mean Range of means 0.5 - 5.4 g Not Reported Tadpole ponds, University of Kentucky, Lexington [lat.,38^o06'23"N; long., 84^o30'08"W] 41 - 194 Exposure Factor Datasets
Body Weight - Mean Range of means 20 - 36 g Not Reported Tadpole ponds, University of Kentucky, Lexington [lat.,38^o06'23"N; long., 84^o30'08"W] 23 - 235 Exposure Factor Datasets
Time of Fledging or Metamorphosis June (begin), July - Aug. (peak), Oct. (end) Tadpole transformation determined by presence of Taylor-Kollros stages XIX - XXIV Not Reported Tadpole 3500 Exposure Factor Datasets
Age at Fledging, Metamorphosis, Weaning Time to transformation after hatching from eggs 12 - 14 mo Not Reported Tadpole ponds, University of Kentucky, Lexington [lat.,38^o06'23"N; long., 84^o30'08"W] 3500 Exposure Factor Datasets
Citation:

Intersexual differences in growth, mortality, and size at maturity in bullfrogs in central Ontario

Author(s)
Shirose, L.J., R.J. Brooks, J.R. Barta and S.S. Desser
Pages
2363-2369
Year
Issue
12
Volume
71
Exposure Endpoint Type Endpoint Value Endpoint Description Error Range Units Sex Life Cycle Stage Location Sample Size Type
Age at Sexual Maturity 5 Average age at maturity, measured in years post-transformation yr Female Adult Algonquin Provincal Park, Ontario [lat., 45^o35'N; long., 78^o30'W] 567 Exposure Factor Datasets
Age at Sexual Maturity 3 Average age at maturity, measured in years post-transformation yr Male Adult Algonquin Provincal Park, Ontario [lat., 45^o35'N; long., 78^o30'W] 567 Exposure Factor Datasets
Longevity Maximum estimated age 8 - 10 yr Both Male and Female Adult Algonquin Provincal Park, Ontario [lat., 45^o35'N; long., 78^o30'W] 567 Exposure Factor Datasets
Growth Rate 0.0653 0.01465 SE mm/d Both Male and Female Algonquin Provincal Park, Ontario [lat., 45^o35'N; long., 78^o30'W] 16 Exposure Factor Datasets
Growth Rate 0.1056 0.01427 SE mm/d Both Male and Female Algonquin Provincal Park, Ontario [lat., 45^o35'N; long., 78^o30'W] 34 Exposure Factor Datasets
Growth Rate 0.1322 0.1109 SE mm/d Female Algonquin Provincal Park, Ontario [lat., 45^o35'N; long., 78^o30'W] 44 Exposure Factor Datasets
Growth Rate 0.1353 0.01079 SE mm/d Male Algonquin Provincal Park, Ontario [lat., 45^o35'N; long., 78^o30'W] 46 Exposure Factor Datasets
Growth Rate 0.0930 0.02287 SE mm/d Female Algonquin Provincal Park, Ontario [lat., 45^o35'N; long., 78^o30'W] 14 Exposure Factor Datasets
Growth Rate 0.0841 0.01882 SE mm/d Male Algonquin Provincal Park, Ontario [lat., 45^o35'N; long., 78^o30'W] 12 Exposure Factor Datasets
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