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Wailing frog

The wailing frog or crying water-holding frog (Ranoidea vagitus) is a frog from Australia. It lives in Western Australia and the Northern Territory.[2][3][4]

Wailing frog
Conservation status
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Clade: Ranoidea
Species:
R. vagitus
Binomial name
Ranoidea vagitus
(Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1981)
Synonyms[2]
  • Cylcorana vagitus (Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1981)
  • Litoria (Cyclorana) vagitus (Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006)
  • Cyclorana vagita (Tyler and Knight, 2009)
  • Dryopsophus vagitus (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016)
  • Ranoidea vagitus (Dubois and Frétey, 2016)

This frog lives in grassy places with few trees.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Harold Cogger. Litoria vagitus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004 (2008). p. e.T41077A10397049. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T41077A10397049.en. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 'Ranoidea vagitus (Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1981)American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
  3. ↑ Litoria vagitus: Wailing FrogFrogs of Australia. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 J-M. Hero. Cyclorana vagitus: Wailing Frog (April 5, 2002)Amphibiaweb. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
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