Southern Sandhill Frog
| Southern Sandhill Frog | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Myobatrachidae |
| Genus: | Arenophryne Tyler, 1976 |
| Species: | A. xiphorhyncha |
| Binomial name | |
| Arenophryne xiphorhyncha (Doughty and Edwards, 2008) | |
The Southern Sandhill Frog (Arenophryne xiphorhyncha Doughty and Edwards, 2008) is a fossorial anuran found in a limited range of far western Australia. The only other genus member to A. xiphorhynca is the Northern Sandhill Frog, A. rotunda, which was formerly considered the sole species within the Arenophryne genus until the first decade of the 2000s, when this new species of frog named the Southern Sandhill Frog was discovered about 100 kilometres from Geraldton, Western Australia in Kalbarri National Park.
See also
References
- C.Michael Hogan, J.M.Hero & J.D.Roberts. 2012. Species account for Arenophryne rotunda. ed. Michelle Koo. AmphibiaWeb.
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