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Ornate Burrowing Frog

Platyplectrum ornatum

Ornate Burrowing Frog, reference photograph — Photograph · Graham Wise from Brisbane, Australia · CC BY 2.0

Range: Native to Australia, from western Sydney to Cape York in Queensland and across to Western Australia along both sides of the Great Dividing Range.
Habitat: Wet sclerophyll forest in coastal areas and woodland in more arid regions; it breeds in still water bodies such as dams, puddles and flooded grassland.

Facts

Its enlarged foot tubercles help it burrow feet first, scraping soil as it disappears underground.

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