Kimberly water-holding frog

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.[2][3]

Kimberly water-holding frog
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Clade: Ranoidea
Species:
R. longipes
Binomial name
Ranoidea longipes
(Tyler and Martin, 1977)[2]
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) [2]

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.[3]

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. "Ranoidea longipes (Tyler and Martin, 1977)". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
  3. J.M. Hero (April 5, 2002). "Cyclorana longipes: Long-footed frog". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
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