Shoemaker frog
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| Species: | N. sutor
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| Neobatrachus sutor Main, 1957
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The Shoemaker frog (Neobatrachus sutor) is an Australian frog which lives in Western Australia. It is a species in the family Limnodynastidae. Its natural habitats are temperate scrub, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, intermittent freshwater marshes, hot deserts, and temperate desert. The frog is named after the noise they make which sounds like a hammer in use. The frog is yellow to golden in colour. It usually has some brown blotches. When they breed, the female frog lays 200 – 1000 eggs.
References
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110221125431/http://frogsaustralia.net.au/frogs/display.cfm?frog_id=60
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