Booroolong frog
The booroolong frog (Litoria booroolongensis) is a tree frog from Australia.[3] It lives in New South Wales and Victoria.[4][1]
| Booroolong frog | |
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| File:Litoria booroolongensis.jpg | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Pelodryadidae |
| Genus: | Litoria |
| Species: | L. booroolongensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Litoria booroolongensis (Tyler, 1971)
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| File:Booroolongensis Distribution-1-.PNG | |
| Current distribution of the Booroolong frog (in black) compared to the historic distribution (in grey). | |
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Adult frogs are about 5 cm long. They can be brown or gray or green, with black marks. Their bellies are white. [3]
They live in or near streams 200 to 1000 meters above sea level.[4] They lay eggs in cracks in underwater rocks. The tadpoles grow in pools or slow-flowing streams.[3]
As of the early 2000s, the booroolong frog was endangered because human beings divided their habitat into small pieces for logging and grazing, because willow trees clogged the streams where they live, and because invasive species of fish ate the tadpoles.[4]
Booroolong Frog Media
- Booroolong Frog, Taronga Zoo, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.jpg
An image of a Booroolong frog taken at its enclosure in the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia
- Booroolong habitat oberon.jpg
Rocky, westerly flowing streams, like this one near Oberon, are prime habitat of the Booroolong frog.
References
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