New Holland frog

The New Holland frog, eastern snipping frog or wide-mouthed frog (Ranoidea novaehollandiae) is a tree frog from Australia. It lives in Queensland on Cape York and in New South Wales.[1][2]

New Holland frog
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Clade: Ranoidea
Species:
R. novaehollandiae
Binomial name
Ranoidea novaehollandiae
(Steindachner, 1867) [1]
Synonyms
  • Cyclorana nova-hollandiae (Steindachner, 1867)
  • Litoria novaehollandiae (Tyler & Davies, 1978)
  • Phractops alutaceus (Peters, 1867)
  • Cyclorana novaehollandiae (Tyler & Martin, 1975)
  • itoria (Cyclorana) novaehollandiae (Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, & Wheeler)
  • Dryopsophus novaehollandiae (Duellman, Marion, & Hedges, 2016)
  • Ranoidea novaehollandiae (Dubois & Frétey, 2016) [1]

This frog does not live in forests or high in mountains. It lays eggs in pools where the water does not move quickly, about 1000 at a time.[2]

References
  1. "Ranoidea novaehollandiae (Steindachner, 1867)". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
  2. J-M Hero (April 5, 2002). "Cyclorana novaehollandiae: New Holland Frog". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
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