Slender greenish to brownish frog with dark spots which are usually edged with a lighter color. It has a light stripe along its upper jaw and tends to grow to be a little over 3 inches in length. Read more information on this subject in the Housing Your Pet Frog section.
Breeding is most likely to happen in outdoor enclosures like backyard ponds.
All leopard frogs, however, can be treated alike. Mostly nocturnal creatures, these guys tend to take cover in the water when startled. There are similar, related species of frogs that has similar care such as the Southern Leopard frog Rana sphenocephala . There is also, however, one frog that looks deceptively similar called the Pickerel Frog or Rana palustris . The Leopard Frog and the Pickerel Frog can be distinguished by the arrangement of their spots.