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FROG FACTS |
Description
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 stripe from the nostril through the eye to the shoulder. The iris is gold above the pupil. It has 4-6 indistinct bars on the hind legs.
Other Names
Stuttering Frog
Size
up to 8cm
Habitat
The Southern Barred Frog inhabits temperate and sub-tropical rainforest, wet eucalypt forest, and Antarctic Beech forests
Breeding
spawn is laid in dug-out, gravel nests in shallow, flowing water. Tadpoles grow to 80mm but are usually up to 65 mm
Range
scattered populations along the New South Wales coast at altitudes between 20 m and 1400 m
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Conservation Status
The conservation status in the 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals is "vulnerable".
Classification
| Class: | Amphibia | | Order: | Anura | | Family: | Myobatrachidae | | Genus: | Mixophyes | | Species: | balbus | | Common Name: | Southern Barred Frog |
Relatives in same Genus
Great Barred Frog (M. fasciolatus)
Fleay's Barred Frog (M. fleayi)
Giant Barred Frog (M. iteratus)
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