Wailing frog

The wailing frog or crying water-holding frog (Ranoidea vagitus) is a frog from Australia. It lives in Western Australia and the Northern Territory.[2][3][4]

Wailing frog
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Clade: Ranoidea
Species:
R. vagitus
Binomial name
Ranoidea vagitus
(Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1981)
Synonyms[2]
  • Cylcorana vagitus (Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1981)
  • Litoria (Cyclorana) vagitus (Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006)
  • Cyclorana vagita (Tyler and Knight, 2009)
  • Dryopsophus vagitus (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016)
  • Ranoidea vagitus (Dubois and Frétey, 2016)

This frog lives in grassy places with few trees.[4]


References
  1. Harold Cogger; Dale Roberts; Paul Horner (2008). "Litoria vagitus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. p. e.T41077A10397049. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T41077A10397049.en. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
  2. "Ranoidea vagitus (Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1981)". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
  3. "Litoria vagitus: Wailing Frog". Frogs of Australia. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
  4. J-M. Hero; H. G. Cogger; J. D. Roberts; P. Horner (April 5, 2002). "Cyclorana vagitus: Wailing Frog". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
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