Eastern water-holding frog

Eastern water-holding frog
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Clade: Ranoidea
Species:
R. platycephala
Binomial name
Ranoidea platycephala
(Günther, 1873)
Synonyms
  • Chiroleptes platycephalus (Günther, 1863)
  • Phractops platycephalus (Nieden, 1923)
  • Cyclorana platycephalus (Parker, 1940)
  • Cyclorana slevini (Loveridge, 1950)
  • Neophractops platycephalus (Wells and Wellington, 1985)
  • Neophractops slevini (Wells and Wellington, 1985)
  • Dryopsophus platycephala (Wells and Wellington, 1985)
  • Cyclorana platycephala (Duellman, 1985)
  • Litoria (Cyclorana) platycephala (Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006)
  • Dryopsophus platycephala (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016)
  • Ranoidea platycephala (Dubois and Frétey, 2016)

The eastern water-holding frog, flat-headed frog, common water-holding frog or water-holding frog (Ranoidea platycephala) is a frog from Australia. It lives in the dry middle of the country in Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales.

The adult frog is from 6.0 to 9.0 cm long. It is dark in color or mottled green. This frog lives in many kinds of land, for example grasslands, temporary wetlands, and Australian wetlands called billabongs. When the weather is dry, this frog digs a burrow in the ground and saves water. It lays eggs, 500 at a time, when the ground floods and makes temporary pools.

References

  1. ↑ Hero, J.; Lemckert, F.; Robertson, P.; Mahony, M. (2008). "Litoria platycephala". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004: e.T41076A10396927. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T41076A10396927.en. Retrieved September 27, 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Ranoidea platycephala (Günther, 1863)". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved September 27, 2020.
  3. 1 2 J.M. Hero. "Cyclorana platycephala: Eastern water-holding frog". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved September 27, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Cyclorana platycephala: Water-holding Frog". Frogs of Australia. Retrieved September 27, 2020.