Northern burrowing frog
| Northern Burrowing Frog | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Myobatrachidae |
| Genus: | Neobatrachus |
| Species: | N. aquilonius |
| Binomial name | |
| Neobatrachus aquilonius Tyler, Davies & Martin, 1981 | |
The Northern Burrowing Frog (Neobatrachus aquilonius) is a species of frog in the Myobatrachidae family. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, and intermittent freshwater marshes.
References
- Hero, J.-M. & Roberts, D. 2004. Neobatrachus aquilonius. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 22 July 2007.
The Northern Burrowing Frog (Neobatrachus aquilonius)belongs to the Limnodynastidae family of frogs. You may find the Northern Burrowing Frog listed under the Leptodactylidae family in older reference guides, before this family was divided into the Limnodynastidae and Myobatrachidae families. Its distribution is from the arid border of the Kimberley, Western Australia, near Broome and Derby, extending east into the Northern Territory and Western Queensland.[1]
- ↑ Tyler, M.J. and Knight, F. Field guide to the frogs of Australia, revised edition, 2011