Wilcox's frog
Wilcox's frog, Kinghorn's tree frog, or Ithica Creek treefrog (Ranoidea wilcoxii) is a tree frog from Australia. It lives in Queensland and New South Wales.[2][3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Clade: | Ranoidea |
| Species: | R. wilcoxii
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| Ranoidea wilcoxii (Günther, 1864)[2]
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The adult male frog is 3.5 to 4.8 cm long and the adult female frog is 3.9 to 6.5 cm long. This frog is light brown. Some frogs have markings and some do not. This frog has a black and yellow stripe down each side of its body. The eggs are dark in color. The female frog lays eggs at the edges of streams where the water does not flow quickly or under rocks in the water. This frog can catch the fungal disease chytridiomycosis.[3]
Wilcox's Frog Media
Stony Creek Frog, Female
Stony Creek Frog, Male
Eungella NP, Broken River, Central Queensland, AUSTRALIA Scanned Slide from Dec 2000
Eungella NP, Broken River, Central Queensland, AUSTRALIA Scanned Slide from Dec 2000
Cairns, QLD
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References
- ↑ Template:Cite IUCN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Ranoidea wilcoxii (Günther, 1864)". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ketti Augusztiny (October 26, 2004). "Litoria wilcoxii". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved October 7, 2020.