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Rheobatrachus, whose members are known as the gastric-brooding frogs or platypus frogs, is a genus of extinct ground-dwelling frogs native to Queensland in eastern Australia. The genus consisted of only two species, the southern and northern gastric-brooding frogs, both of which became extinct in the mid-1980s.
The southern gastric-brooding frog was discovered in 1972 and described in 1973, [2] though there is one publication suggesting that the species was discovered in 1914 (from the Blackall Range). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Rheobatrachus silus was restricted to the Blackall Range and Conondale Ranges in southeast Queensland , north of Brisbane , between ...
Distribution of the northern gastric-brooding frog (blue). The northern gastric-brooding frog (Rheobatrachus vitellinus) was discovered in 1984 by Michael Mahony. [2]It was restricted to the rainforest areas of the Clarke Range in Eungella National Park and the adjacent Pelion State Forest in central eastern Queensland.
Variable bush frog (Pseudophilautus variabilis) Pseudophilautus zal; Pseudophilautus zimmeri; Mountain mist frog (Ranoidea nyakalensis) Southern gastric brooding frog (Rheobatrachus silus) Eungella gastric-brooding frog (Rheobatrachus vitellinus) Sharp snouted day frog (Taudactylus acutirostris) Mount Glorious day frog (Taudactylus diurnus)
The gastric brooding frog Croom Helm, London & Canberra (1983). C. R. Twidale, M. J. Tyler and M. Davies (eds.) Natural history of Eyre Peninsula Royal Society of South Australia, Adelaide (1985) Michael J. Tyler and Margaret Davies Frogs of the Northern Territory Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory, Darwin (1986).
Eungella National Park is recognised as one of eleven areas with high levels of frog endemism. [30] Of the three endemic frog species endemic, two are still believed to exist today, the Eungella dayfrog and the Eungella tinker frog, while one species, the northern gastric brooding frog, is believed extinct.
Gastric-brooding frog – An entire genus of ground frogs that were native to Queensland, Australia. They became extinct in the mid-1980s primarily due to Chytridiomycosis. In 2013, scientists in Australia successfully created a living embryo from non-living preserved genetic material, and hope that by using somatic-cell nuclear transfer ...
The leaf green tree frog (Litoria phyllochroa) is a species of tree frog common to forests of eastern Australia. Amphibians of Australia are limited to members of the order Anura, commonly known as frogs. All Australian frogs are in the suborder Neobatrachia, also known as the modern frogs, which make up the largest proportion of extant frog ...