Cophixalus petrophilus

Cophixalus petrophilus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Microhylidae
Genus: Cophixalus
Species: C. petrophilus
Binomial name
Cophixalus petrophilus
Hoskin, 2013

Cophixalus petrophilus, the blotched boulder-frog, is a species of frog from the Cape York Peninsula (Queensland, Australia) that was described in 2013.[1][2][3] The name of the frog means "rock-loving" and it mountain rainforest boulder fields of Northern Queensland. The frogs feed and breed during the summer wet season rains. The area is described as dark, cool and moist during the dry season. It is one of three newly described vertebrate species from Cape Melville, Australia.

Description

This frog lives in the lower levels of the rainforest and live in the vegetation. They are 10 millimetres (0.39 in) to 29 millimetres (1.1 in), relatively short. [4]

Reproduction

The frog lays its eggs in moist rock cracks and the tadpoles develop within the eggs while being guarded by the male and emerge as fully formed froglets when they hatch out.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Conrad J. Hoskin (2013). "A new frog species (Microhylidae: Cophixalus) from boulder-pile habitat of Cape Melville, north-east Australia" (PDF excerpt). Zootaxa 3722 (1): 61–72. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3722.1.5.
  2. ↑ 'Lost world' discovered in remote Australia AFP October 27, 2013
  3. 1 2 Jessica Aldred (October 28, 2013). "Gecko that looks like a leaf among new species found in Australia's 'lost world'". The Guardian. Retrieved October 28, 2013.
  4. ↑ http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2013/f/z03722p072f.pdf

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