Shoemaker frog
Shoemaker frog | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Limnodynastidae |
Genus: | Neobatrachus |
Species: | N. sutor
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Binomial name | |
Neobatrachus sutor Main, 1957
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The shoemaker frog (Neobatrachus sutor) is a species of frog in the family Limnodynastidae. It is found in Western Australia. Its natural habitats are temperate scrub, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, intermittent freshwater marshes, hot deserts, and temperate desert. The frog is named after the noise they make which sounds like a hammer in use. The frog is yellow to golden in colour. It usually has some brown blotches. When they breed, the female frog lays 200 – 1000 eggs.
References[]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110221125431/http://frogsaustralia.net.au/frogs/display.cfm?frog_id=60
Categories:
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Neobatrachus
- Amphibians of South Australia
- Amphibians of Western Australia
- Amphibians of the Northern Territory
- Amphibians described in 1957
- Frogs of Australia
- Myobatrachidae stubs
- Western Australia stubs