Blue Mountains tree frog
The Blue Mountains tree frog (Litoria citropa) is a tree frog from Australia. It lives in New South Wales and Victoria.[2][3][4]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Pelodryadidae |
| Genus: | Ranoidea |
| Species: | R. citropa
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| Ranoidea citropa (Péron, 1807)
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These frogs can be 7 cm long. They are dark brown and light brown with a dark stripe over the eye going down the body. Parts of the legs and middle are bright orange. They have bright green patches of skin on their bodies.[4]
They live in rocky streams in thick forests. They like streams with large numbers of plants in them.[2]
They lay eggs 600-950 at a time in pools with slow-moving water. The eggs sink to the bottoms of the pools and stick to the rocks.[2]
Blue Mountains Tree Frog Media
A green morph of Litoria citropa
Blue Mountains tree frogs in amplexus
References
- ↑ 'Ranoidea citropa (Péron, 1807)American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 J-M Hero. Litoria citropa: Blue Mountains Tree Frog (April 5, 2002)Amphibiaweb. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
- ↑ Jean-Marc Hero. Litoria citropa. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004 (2004). p. e.T41084A10385701. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T41084A10385701.en. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Litoria citropa (Duméril & Bibron, 1841), Blue Mountains Tree FrogMuseums Victoria. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
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