Olive water-holding frog

The olive water-holding frog, spotted collared frog or Daly Waters frog (Ranoidea maculosa) is a frog from Australia. Scientists have only seen it in one place in the Northern Territory, with a few on the other side of the border in Queensland. This place is called Daly Waters.[2][3][4]

Olive water-holding frog
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Clade: Ranoidea
Species:
R. maculosa
Binomial name
Ranoidea maculosa
(Tyler and Martin, 1977)
Most of this frog's range is in the Northern Territory, with a small part in Queensland.
Synonyms[2]
  • Cyclorana maculosus (Tyler and Martin, 1977)
  • Cyclorana maculosa (Duellman, 1985)
  • Litoria (Cyclorana) maculosa (Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006)
  • Dryopsophus maculosa (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016)
  • Ranoidea maculosa
  • (Dubois and Frétey, 2016)

This frog is 5.0 cm long. Most of the skin on its back is pale but it has very dark black marks.[4]

References
  1. Jean-Marc Hero; Paul Horner (2004). "Litoria maculosa". 2004. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T41072A10396451. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T41072A10396451.en. Retrieved September 16, 2020. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. "Ranoidea maculosa (Tyler and Martin, 1977)". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
  3. J-M Hero (May 6, 2002). "Cyclorana maculosa: Daly Waters Frog". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
  4. Eric Vanderduys (November 15, 2012). Field Guide to the Frogs of Australia. Csiro. p. 51. ISBN 9780643108806. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
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