Kimberly water-holding frog

Kimberly water-holding frog
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Clade: Ranoidea
Species:
R. longipes
Binomial name
Ranoidea longipes
(Tyler and Martin, 1977)
Synonyms
  • Cyclorana longipes (Tyler and Martin, 1977)
  • Litoria (Cyclorana) longipes (Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006)
  • Dryopsophus longipes (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016)
  • Ranoidea longipes (Dubois and Frétey, 2016)

The Kimberly water-holding frog, long-footed frog, collared frog, blotchy frog or variegated burrowing frog (Ranoidea longipes) is a frog from Australia. It lives in the Kimberly region in Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland.

This frog lives in grasslands. It likes to dig in the ground. The females lay eggs in shallow water, 50 to 2000 at a time. The tadpoles grow into frogs after one month.

References

  1. ↑ Jean-Marc Hero; Dale Roberts; Paul Horner (2004). "Litoria longpies". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T41071A10396342. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T41071A10396342.en. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 "Ranoidea longipes (Tyler and Martin, 1977)". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
  3. 1 2 J.M. Hero (April 5, 2002). "Cyclorana longipes: Long-footed frog". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved September 14, 2020.