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A large species of frog, the snout-vent length of the southern torrent frog commonly exceeds 54 mm (2.1 in), and reaches over 70 mm (2.8 in) in some exceptionally large males. This species has countershading coloration, with the upper surface of the body being gray-brown with mottled dark patterns while the belly and chest are pale. The limbs ...
The Eungella Torrent Frog is the only known Myobatrachid known to show its presence by the movement of its body. Of the six species in the genus Taudactylus , one of the most primitive groups of frogs in Australia, two are restricted to the Wet Tropics of Queensland.
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Sizes of the holotype specimens of three Arthroleptides species compared to a human hand, with the Du Toit's torrent frog shown in black. This species is a small frog, with the adult female type specimen collected in 1934 measuring 31 mm (1.2 in) in snout-vent length, and the adult male paratype specimen being slightly smaller, with a snout ...
Torrent frogs are a number of unrelated frogs that prefer to inhabit small rapid-flowing mountain or hill streams with a lot of torrents. They are generally smallish neobatrachians with a greyish-brown and usually darkly mottled back, giving them excellent camouflage among wet rocks overgrown with algae ; their well-developed feet make them ...
Wijayarana is a group of true frogs found in Southeast Asia.Their common name is Wijaya cascade frogs.Many are commonly known as "torrent frogs" after their favorite habitat - small rapid-flowing mountain and hill streams -, but this name is used for many similar-looking frogs regardless of whether they are closely related.
This species is the only known Australian frog to go through an apparent period of absence, only to later reappear. The Eungella torrent frog was first noted to be in decline in the 1980s. From 1987 to 1992 the frog was not encountered, despite surveys.
This species was first discovered in 1976 and is known from four localities: Alexandra Creek, Hilda Creek (Cape Tribulation NP), Roaring Meg Cascades, and Mossman Bluff Creek (Daintree NP), north-eastern Queensland—between 640 and 1,000 m (2,100 and 3,280 ft) in altitude—and the historical extent of the species only was 120 km 2 (46 sq mi ...