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DUSKY TOADLET FACTS |
Description
The Dusky Toadlet is a dark brown or grey brown frog, usually with lighter brown markings. There is normally a pale triangle shape on the head, and a pale yellow patch in the armpit. The underside is white with many dark blue or black speckles. It has an orange patch in the thighs. The sides are blue grey.
Size
up to 30mm
Habitat
coastal forest, bushland, heathland and sclerophyll forest.
Breeding
This frog breeds in dams, swamps, roadside ditches or flooded grassland areas
Range
coastal areas from just north of Sydney, New South Wales to central Queensland coast.
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Amphibia | | Order: | Anura | | Family: | Myobatrachidae | | Genus: | Uperoleia | | Species: | fusca | | Common Name: | Dusky Toadlet |
Relatives in same Genus
Smooth Toadlet (U. laevigata)
Tyler's Toadlet (U. tyleri)
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