Bumpy rocket frog
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Pelodryadidae |
| Genus: | Litoria |
| Species: | L. inermis |
| Binomial name | |
| Litoria inermis (Peters, 1867)[2] | |
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The bumpy rocket frog or Peter's frog (Litoria inermis) is a frog from Australia.[2][4] It lives all across the northern and eastern parts of Australia, in Queensland, the Northern Territory, and Western Australia.[5][1]
An adult frog is 3.5 cm long from nose to rear end. It is light and dark brown with some yellow marks on its legs and a white spot near its jaws. Its front feet have no webbing and its back feet have some webbing. Its skin is bumpy.[2]
The scientists who first wrote about this frog in the 1800s thought it was a burrowing frog, meaning a frog that likes to dig into the ground and spend time underground, but it is not. Its scientific name, "inermis", means "does not have a weapon". Most burrowing frogs have sharp bones in their feet, but the bumpy rocket frog does not. Burrowing frogs use these bones to dig.[2]
This frog lives in flood plains, forests, grasslands, swamps and streams, but it can live in rocky places if there are streams through them.[2][5]
Females lay their eggs 100-300 at a time in temporary bodies of water with no plants in them. The tadpoles can grow to 4 cm.[2]
References
- 1 2 Jean-Marc Hero; Paul Horner; Dale Roberts; Richard Retallick (2004). "Litoria inermis". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004: e.T41094A10388354. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T41094A10388354.en. Retrieved June 22, 2020.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Bumpy Rocket Frog: Litoria inermis (Peters 1867)". Western Australia Museum. Retrieved June 22, 2020.
- ↑ "Litoria inermis (Peters, 1867)". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
- ↑ "Litoria inermis". James Cook University. 19 October 2015. Retrieved June 22, 2020.
- 1 2 J-M Hero (April 5, 2002). "Litoria inermis: Peter's Frog". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved June 22, 2020.