Gurrumul's toadlet (''Uperoleia gurrumuli'') is a species of

frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely Carnivore, carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order (biology), order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-f ...

in the family

Myobatrachidae Myobatrachidae, commonly known as Australian ground frogs or Australian water frogs, is a family of frogs found in Australia and New Guinea. Members of this family vary greatly in size, from species less than long, to the second-largest frog in ...

. It is

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to the

Wessel Islands The Wessel Islands is a group of uninhabited islands in the Northern Territory of Australia. They extend in a more or less straight line from Buckingham Bay and the Napier Peninsula of Arnhem Land, and Elcho Island, to the northeast. Marchinbar ...

of the

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory ...

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. It is only known from 3 specimens (one female and two juveniles) collected in 1993 and was found to be a distinct species via genetic analysis, and thus little is known about its diagnostic features from other ''Uperoleia'' species. It can be distinguished from the

stonemason's toadlet The stonemason toadlet (''Uperoleia lithomoda'') is a species of frog in the family Myobatrachidae. It is found in Australia, Papua New Guinea, and possibly Indonesia. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical ...

(''U. lithomoda'') by its rounded inguinal glands, but appears physically identical to the flood plain toadlet (''U. inundata''). It was named in honor of Yolngu musician

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu (22 January 1971 – 25 July 2017), commonly known as Gurrumul and also referred to since his death as Dr G. Yunupingu, was an Aboriginal Australian musician of the Yolŋu peoples. A multi-instrumentalist, he played ...

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Uperoleia Amphibians of the Northern Territory Frogs of Australia Amphibians described in 2021 {{Myobatrachidae-stub