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University of Kansas Publications
Museum of Natural History
Volume 8, No. 4, pp. 275-306, 9 figs. in text
February 10, 1956
A Field Study
of the Kansas Ant-Eating Frog,
Gastrophryne olivacea
BY
HENRY S. FITCH
University of Kansas
Lawrence
1956
University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History
Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, A. Byron Leonard, Robert W. Wilson
Volume 8, No. 4, pp. 275-306, 9 figs. in text
Published February 10, 1956
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
PRINTED BY
FERD VOILAND. JR., STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1956
25-7819
A FIELD STUDY
OF THE KANSAS ANT-EATING FROG,
GASTROPHRYNE OLIVACEA
By
Henry S. Fitch
INTRODUCTION
The ant-eating frog is one of the smallest species of vertebrates onthe University of Kansas Natural History Reservation, but individuallyit is one of the most numerous. The species is importantin the over-all ecology; its biomass often exceeds that of larger speciesof vertebrates. Because of secretive and subterranean habits,however, its abundance and e