Kimberly water-holding frog

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The Kimberly water-holding frog, long-footed frog, collared frog, blotchy frog or variegated burrowing frog (Ranoidea longipes) is a frog from Australia. It lives in the Kimberly region in Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland.[2][3]

Kimberly water-holding frog
Conservation status
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Clade: Ranoidea
Species:
R. longipes
Binomial name
Ranoidea longipes
(Tyler and Martin, 1977)[2]
File:Litoria longipes map-fr.svg
Synonyms
  • Cyclorana longipes (Tyler and Martin, 1977)
  • Litoria (Cyclorana) longipes (Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006)
  • Dryopsophus longipes (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016)
  • Ranoidea longipes (Dubois and Frétey, 2016) [2]

This frog lives in grasslands. It likes to dig in the ground. The females lay eggs in shallow water, 50 to 2000 at a time. The tadpoles grow into frogs after one month.[3]

References

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