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Australian Frogs

Toads [Order: Anura, Family: Bufonidae]
Cane Toads are large, stout amphibians with a dry and warty skin. Grey and olive brown above with pale belly with dark, irregular spots. The males make a low-pitched whirring sound when calling....
Cane Toad
(Bufo marinus)

Tree Frogs [Order: Anura, Family: Hylidae]
The Bleating Tree Frog is brown above with lighter irregular bands on each side from the eye down the body. It has a dark stripe from the snout, through the eye and onto the ear. The underside is...
Bleating Tree Frog
(Litoria dentata) 		The Blue Mountains Tree Frog is brown above with some darker flecks. It has a dark stripe from the nostril to the groin, with a lighter golden stripe above the dark stripe. The sides of the head and...
Blue Mountains Tree Frog
(Litoria citropa) 		The Broad-palmed Frog is pale brown or dark brown and may have darker blotches or variegations. It has a black band runs from the snout, that becomes a band of blotches down the side. There is a...
Broad-palmed Frog
(Litoria latopalmata) 		The Dainty Tree Frog is pale leaf green to pea green on back and yellow underneath. Eye has bright orange iris. Lips are yellow. Hind surface of thighs is bright purple or purple brown. Large toe...
Dainty Tree Frog
(Litoria gracilenta)
The Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog is green, pale brown or green above with white stripe from below the eye to the shoulder The underside is white and granular. The iris is golden. The hind surface of...
Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog
(Litoria fallax) 		Freycinet's Frog is usually brown with variable pattern of large lighter or darker patches or raised dots. There is usually a triangular patch on the snout and another larger triangle shape behind...
Freycinet's Frog
(Litoria freycineti) 		The Giant Tree Frog, is the largest tree frog in the world. It is usually bright green, although can be brown. The underside is off-white. The lower lip has a white stripe that continues to the...
Giant Tree Frog
(Litoria infrafrenata) 		Green and Golden Bell Frog is green with a pattern of golden markings. It is similar in appearance to some of the European Rana species. The Green and Golden Bell Frog is often active by day and...
Green and Golden Bell Frog
(Litoria aurea)
The Green Stream Frog is light green to dark olive green to brown on the back. It has a pale golden stripe from the nostril through the eye and down the side, underlined by a dark brown stripe. The...
Green Stream Frog
(Litoria phyllochroa) 		The Green Tree Frog is dark green or bright green on back and sides, the back often have white spots. The belly is white. Skin is smooth on back and granular on underside. The eye is gold colour. Has...
Green Tree Frog
(Litoria caerulea) 		The Growling Grass Frog is a mottled bright green and bronze colour above, often with dark brown bumps. The underside is pale cream. It has a light brown stripe from behind the eye to the base of the...
Growling Grass Frog
(Litoria raniformis) 		The Jervis Bay Tree Frog is a fairly large brown frog with a double band on the back from between the eyes to the vent. There is also a dark band from the snout to the base of the arms. The armpits...
Jervis Bay Tree Frog
(Litoria jervisiensis)
Tree frog with a small head and large eyes. Mottled grey to brown with fine granular skin, sometimes with a few green spots on back. Eye has golden coloured iris with cross shaped pupil. the...
Laughing Treefrog
(Litoria tyleri) 		The Leaf Green Tree Frog is usually green (sometimes brown). Immature frogs are always dull brown. They are similar to the Green Stream Frog (Litoria phyllochroa) and are distinguished by their range...
Leaf Green Tree Frog
(Litoria nudidigita) 		Lesueur's Frog is a pale brown or dark brown frog, and often has darker patches on the back. In the breeding season, males are yellow. It has a dark stripe from the snout to the shoulder. The back of...
Lesueur's Tree Frog
(Litoria lesueuri) 		Littlejohn's Tree Frog is brown or grey-brown with scattered darker flecks and spots. There is often a faint darker patch running down the back. It has a dark line from behind the nostril to the...
Littlejohn's Tree Frog
(Litoria littlejohni)
The Magnificent Tree Frog ranges from dark olive to bright green on its back, with scattered yellow or white blotches. The inside of legs is bright orange-yellow. The underside is white and granular....
Magnificent Tree Frog
(Litoria splendida) 		The Mountain Stream Tree Frog is light green to dark olive green on the back. The thighs are orange yellow and the belly is off-white. It has a pale brown yellowish stripe from the nostril, through...
Mountain Stream Tree Frog
(Litoria barringtonensis) 		Pearson's Tree Frog is a small tree frog that varies in colour from completely light green, to a mixture of green and brown, to mostly brown. It usually has black dots scattered over the back. The...
Pearson's Tree Frog
(Litoria pearsoniana) 		Peron's Tree Frog is variable in colour and can change its color. It is usually shades of grey and brown, and can be almost white. It has mottled yellow and black: thighs, armpits and groin. They...
Peron's Tree Frog
(Litoria peroni)
The Red-eyed Tree Frog has bright to dark green back. The backs of the thighs are reddish-purple. The eye is yellow in centre and redder towards the outside. The underside is bright yellow. Has large...
Red-eyed Tree Frog
(Litoria chloris) 		The Rocket Frog is variable in colour and patterning. It is streamlined with long legs. The back is different shades of brown with darker skin folds along the length of the body. The underside is...
Rocket Frog
(Litoria nasuta) 		The Southern Brown Tree Frog is a brown frog with a broad darker band from the eyes down most of the back. It has a dark band from the nostril, through the eye, to the shoulder. A pale white stripe...
Southern Brown Tree Frog
(Litoria ewingi) 		The Stoney Creek Frog is most commonly found amongst vegetation next to or overhanging permanent ponds.
Stoney Creek Frog
(Litoria wilcoxi)
The Striped Burrowing Frog is rough skinned with a striped and spotted pattern There is often a yellowish stripe down the back. It can burrow deep into the soil and live in a cocoon.
Striped Burrowing Frog
(Litoria alboguttata) 		The Tasmanian Tree Frog is the only tree-frog found only in Tasmania. It is green with brown markings and has warty skin
Tasmanian Tree Frog
(Litoria burrowsae) 		Verreaux's Tree Frog is variable in pattern with various combinations of green, dark brown and light brown. Some are brown with a green stripe down the back and green spreading down each side from...
Verreaux's Tree Frog
(Litoria verreauxi) 		The Whirring Tree Frog is cream to red-brown with a darker band along the back. It has a dark stripe from the nostril to the shoulder. The back of the legs is red and thighs are yellow-orange. The...
Whirring Tree Frog
(Litoria revelata)

Myobatrachids [Order: Anura, Family: Myobatrachidae]
The Tusked Frog has small protrusions on the lower jaw that look like tusks. These grow to 5mm in length in males. Male Tusked Frogs have a large head, and females have a smaller proportioned head....
Tusked Frog
(Adelotus brevis) 		The Pouched Frog is a small red-brown frog. Some specimens have a V-shaped patches or light brown dots scattered on their backs. There is usually a dark brown stripe from the nostril through the eye...
Pouched Frog
(Assa darlingtoni) 		The Eastern Common Froglet is a small brown or grey frog with variable markings. It has a dark triangular mark on the upper lip and darker bands on the legs. There is a small white spot at the base...
Eastern Common Froglet
(Crinia signifera) 		The Tasmanian Froglet is a small brown frog often with spots or blotches of another colour. Some individuals are all brown or all black. It often has a reddish stripe from the nostril and down each...
Tasmanian Froglet
(Crinia tasmaniensis)
The Wallum Froglet is a small brown frog and looks similar to the Eastern Common Froglet. The Wallum Froglet has a white stripe from the tip of the snout down the throat. The back varies from grey to...
Wallum Froglet
(Crinia tinnula) 		The Giant Burrowing Frog is a large grey or dark brown frog with a white underside. It has yellow spots on the side and a yellow stripe on the upper lip. In immatures the lip is an orange pink...
Giant Burrowing Frog
(Heleioporus australiacus) 		The Eastern Banjo Frog is a common burrowing frog and may be found ijn large numbers. The frog is variable in colour and pattern. It can be plain, spotted or striped. Males call from the cover of...
Eastern Banjo Frog
(Limnodynastes dumerili) 		The Northern Banjo Frog is brown above with some darker flecks. It has orange red or scarlet markings in the thigh and sides. It has a dark band from the snout to the shoulder, underlined by a raised...
Northern Banjo Frog
(Limnodynastes terraereginae)
The Ornate Burrowing Frog is a stout frog with broad head with protruding eyes. Variable colour pattern; pale sandy back patterned with irregular darker markings, edged in black; pale butterfly...
Ornate Burrowing Frog
(Limnodynastes ornatus) 		The Salmon-striped Frog is brown above with spots and blotches of darker brown. It has pink, orange or red-brown stripes running down the back with two on each side and one down the centre of the...
Salmon-striped Frog
(Limnodynastes salmini) 		The Spotted Marsh Frog is a light brown to olive-green frog with large, irregular green or brown spots. Some specimens have a thin cream, yellow or orange stripe along the back from the snout to the...
Spotted Marsh Frog
(Limnodynastes tasmaniensis) 		The Striped Marsh Frog is pale fawn to golden-brown with dark brown or black stripes along the back. It has a black mask from the nostril, through the eye and down to the shoulder.
Striped Marsh Frog
(Limnodynastes peroni)
Fleay's Barred Frog is light brown with darker blotches. It has an irregular darker brown band from behind the eyes down the back. There is also a dark stripe on the head from in front of the...
Fleay's Barred Frog
(Mixophyes fleayi) 		The Giant Barred Frog the second largest frog in Australia. reaching a maximum It is dark brown with some darker spot. The underside is white. The iris is golden. It has a thin dark stripe from the...
Giant Barred Frog
(Mixophyes iteratus) 		The Great Barred Frog is dark brown above with white underside. It has parallel black bars along the legs, and the thighs are yellow blotched with black. It has a dark line from the snout, through...
Great Barred Frog
(Mixophyes fasciolatus) 		The Southern Barred Frog or Stuttering Frog is brown above blending to pale yellow underneath, It has an irregular shaped blotch from between the eyes to half way down the back. The head has a dark...
Southern Barred Frog
(Mixophyes balbus)
The Red-groined Froglet varies in colour from grey to pale brown to red-brown, with some darker flecks. There is usually a faint stripe running down the back, and a dark band from behind the eye to...
Red-groined Froglet
(Paracrinia haswelli) 		Bibron's Toadlet is mid to dark brown with a pair of boomerang-shaped ridges over the shoulder. The underside is marbled black and white. Tadpoles are dark brown with clear fins that are finely...
Bibron's Toadlet
(Pseudophryne bibroni) 		The Corroboree Frog is a black frog with bold yellow striped markings. The word Corroboree is an Aboriginal word for a gathering or meeting where traditionally the attendees paint themselves with...
Corroboree Frog
(Pseudophryne corroboree) 		The Red-backed Toadlet is orange red or reddish brown above with a broad black band on the sides from the snout down to the hind legs. The underside is boldly marbled black and white. It has a white...
Red-backed Toadlet
(Pseudophryne coriacea)
The Red-crowned Toadlet is dark brown or black with a red T-shaped mark on its head. It has a red wash or spots over its back. The sides are a blue-grey with white marks in the armpits and thighs....
Red-crowned Toadlet
(Pseudophryne australis)




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