#australian frog

[alloutofluck]

Isn’t this green tree frog a cutie? The remarkable thing is that this frog climbed 35 metres to be at the top of my deck. It’s a big fall. They must be so strong!

[csvalentine]

drawing for my teacher :]

[mali-umkin]

Posting White's distinguished gentleman ootd

[drhoz]

#1342 - Pseudophryne guentheri - Crawling Toadlet

Photo by Doug McDougie.

Another species from the Alison Baird Reserve, but found across much of the SW corner of Australia. Up to about 35mm long, with a white belly marked with black blotches.

Crawling Toadlets start breeding with the first rains in autumn and continues through to early winter. The males excavate a burrow, and sit next to them calling for a female. Most mating and egg-laying take place before there is water in the ponds and creek lines where they breed. In the case of Alison Baird, that would be before the groundwater rose enough to clear the surface.

As many as 100 relatively large eggs are laid singly in damp depressions or burrows excavated by the males. Males can often be found on a pile of eggs, probably laid by many females. The eggs will divide and grow normally for a while, then suspend development until winter rains fill ponds and creeks and eventually flood the burrows. 

[forthedingoes]

Check out this cutie! Sorry, hold the phone! Someone with more knowledge than I do has contacted me, so I'm gladly leaving the verdict to them. But this bebbeh may be a Peron’s Tree Frog, aka an Emerald Spotted Treefrog, Laughing Tree Frog or the best name … Maniacal Cackle Treefrog. It’s so cool, s/he has a textured back, and those eyes are beautiful.

[drhoz]

#1247 - Litoria rubella - Desert Tree Frog

AKA Naked Tree Frog and Little Red Tree Frog - a Hylid frog, often found near human habitation, across most of the warmer and drier parts of the continent. The map on the Atlas of Living Australia has nice long lines of sightings along the main inland roads, for obvious reasons. It’s also found in Papua and Timor.

This one was living under the well at the Dairy Wells campsite, and two others lived in the sides of the rusting horse trough.

Cue, Western Australia

[drhoz]

Great Southern BioBlitz 2025 - Greater Perth - Herps

AMPHIBIA

Anura - Limnodynastidae Hooting Frog Heleioporus barycragus 1 Humming Frog Neobatrachus pelobatoides 2 Moaning Frog Heleioporus eyrei 8 Western Banjo Frog Limnodynastes dorsalis 2

Myobatrachidae

Bleating Froglet Crinia pseudinsignifera 1 Quacking Froglet Crinia georgiana 1 Rattling Froglet Crinia glauerti 1 Turtle Frog Myobatrachus gouldii 3 Typical Froglets Crinia 1

Pelodryadidae

Motorbike Frog Ranoidea moorei 6 Slender Tree Frog Coggerdonia adelaidensis 2

(That last one was Litoria adelaidensis, until last year)

REPTILIA

Squamata - Agamidae

Western Bearded Dragon Pogona minor minor 3

Diplodactylidae

speckled stone gecko Diplodactylus lateroides 1 Strophurus spinigerus inornatus 5 Strophurus spinigerus spinigerus 1

Elapidae

Mulga Snake Pseudechis australis 1 Rottnest Island Dugite Pseudonaja affinis exilis 3 Western Tiger Snake Notechis scutatus occidentalis 1

Gekkonidae

Southern Marbled Gecko Christinus marmoratus 2 Western Tree Dtella Gehyra variegata 2

Scincidae

Buchanan's Snake-eyed Skink Cryptoblepharus buchananii 10 King's Skink Egernia kingii 6 Rottnest Shingleback Tiliqua rugosa konowi 2 Southwestern Shingleback Tiliqua rugosa rugosa 9 Shrubland Morethia Skink Morethia obscura 1 West Coast Morethia Skink Morethia lineoocellata 1 Southwestern Earless Skink Hemiergis initialis 1 Two-toed Earless Skink Hemiergis quadrilineatus 7 Western Mourning Skink Lissolepis luctuosa 1

Testudines - Chelidae

Southwestern Snake-necked Turtle Chelodina oblonga 3

[drhoz]

#3399 - Crinia insignifera - Squelching Froglet

Named in reference to the Eastern state species Crinia signifera, when breeding experiments in 1952 proved they weren't the same species. But then we Western Australians are used to the high opinion the Eastern states have of themselves (I kid). On the other hand we also have Crinia psuedoinsignifera.

Highly variable in markings, like most other small Crinias. This doesn't make telling them apart any easier.

Common on the Swan Coastal Plain, and south to Busselton.

Baldivis, Perth