Western water-holding frog

species of Australian frog
(Redirected from Ranoidea occidentalis)

The western water-holding frog is a frog from Australia. Scientists are not sure whether it should be called Ranoidea occidentalis or Cyclorana occidentalis. It lives in Western Australia.[1][2]

Western water-holding frog
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Clade: Cyclorana
Species:
C. occidentalis
Binomial name
Cyclorana occidentalis
(Anstis, Price, Roberts, Catalano, Hines, Doughty, and Donnellan, 2016)
Synonyms
  • Ranoidea occidentalis (Anstis, Price, Roberts, Catalano, Hines, Doughty, and Donnellan, 2016
  • Cyclorana occidentalis (Anstis, Price, Roberts, Catalano, Hines, Doughty, and Donnellan, 2016)[1]

The adult male frog is 6.0 cm long and the adult female frog is 7.0 cm long. It has a flat body. The frog lives in places where the ground is dry. It has webbed feet and spends much of its time in the water. Because it has such a wide head, scientist think this frog eats other frogs. They think it eats them when they come to lay eggs in the same temporary bodies of water where the western water-holding frog lays its eggs.[3]

This frog has young when it rains. The female lays eggs in bodies of water that dry up quickly, 500 at a time.[3]

The tadpoles are 8.0 cm long. Once they become young frogs, they are 3.5 cm long.[3]

References change

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Ranoidea occidentalis (Anstis, Price, Roberts, Catalano, Hines, Doughty, and Donnellan, 2016)". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved September 23, 2020.
  2. "Cyclorana occidentalis". AmphibiaWeb. Retrieved September 23, 2020.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Western Water-holding Frog". Western Australia Museum. 2017. Retrieved September 23, 2020.