Mississippi Gopher Frog
The Mississippi gopher frog or the Lithobates sevosus , also known commonly as the dark gopher frog is a critically endangered species of frog in the family ranidae . The species is endemic to and Its natural habitats are temperate coastal forests and intermittent freshwater marshes. This secretive frog is on average 3 in long, and has a dark brown or black dorsal surface covered in warts. The diet of adult Mississippi gopher frogs includes other frogs, insects, spiders and earth worms. These frogs spend most of their time underground in burrows made by tortoises. The cause of this frogs decline is due to the loss of open longleaf pine habitat needed for subsistence and the seasonal ponds needed for reproduction This species is already so rare that if they disappeared it wouldn't greatly affect the ecosystem where the reside. However, just because they don't have a large niche in their ecosystem does not mean that they are not important. Fortunately, a cons