List Of Amphibians Of South Australia
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{{Use dmy dates, date=April 2022 This is a list of amphibians of South Australia. They are all frogs.


Order Anura (frogs and toads)

*'' Cyclorana cultripes'' (knife-footed frog) *''
Limnodynastes dumerilii ''Limnodynastes dumerilii'' is a frog species from the family Limnodynastidae. The informal names for the species and its subspecies include eastern or southern banjo frog, and bull frog.Waite, Edgar R. (1929): ''The reptiles and amphibians of ...
'' (eastern banjo frog) *'' Limnodynastes fletcheri'' (barking marsh frog) *''
Limnodynastes peronii The striped marsh frog or brown-striped frog (''Limnodynastes peronii'') is a predominantly aquatic frog native to coastal Eastern Australia. It is a common species in urban habitats. Taxonomy The striped marsh frog was described by French nat ...
'' (striped marsh frog) *''
Limnodynastes tasmaniensis The spotted grass frog or spotted marsh frog (''Limnodynastes tasmaniensis'') is a terrestrial frog native to Australia. It is distributed throughout all of New South Wales and Victoria, eastern South Australia, the majority of Queensland, and ...
'' (spotted marsh frog) *'' Neobatrachus sudellae'' (Sudell's frog) *'' Neobatrachus pictus'' (painted burrowing frog) *'' Neobatrachus sutor'' (shoemaker frog) *'' Notaden nichollsi'' (desert spadefoot toad)


Family

Hylidae Hylidae is a wide-ranging family of frogs commonly referred to as "tree frogs and their allies". However, the hylids include a diversity of frog species, many of which do not live in trees, but are terrestrial or semiaquatic. Taxonomy and s ...
(treefrogs)

*'' Litoria ewingi'' (southern brown tree frog) *'' Litoria latopalmata'' (broad-palmed frog) *''
Litoria peronii Peron's tree frog (''Litoria peronii''), also known as the emerald-spotted tree frog, emerald-speckled tree frog, laughing tree frog, and maniacal cackle frog, is species of tree frog in the subfamily Pelodryadinae Pelodryadinae, also known ...
'' (Peron's tree frog) *'' Litoria rubella'' (desert tree frog) *''
Ranoidea caerulea The Australian green tree frog (''Ranoidea caerulea''), also known as simply green tree frog in Australia, White's tree frog, or dumpy tree frog, is a species of tree frog native to Australia and New Guinea, with introduced populations in th ...
'' (Australian green tree frog) *'' Ranoidea maini'' (Main's frog) *''
Ranoidea platycephala ''Ranoidea platycephala'', commonly known as the water-holding frog, is a species of frog common to most Australian states. It differs from most other members of the subfamily Pelodryadinae as a ground dweller and the ability to aestivate. It ca ...
'' (water-holding frog) *'' Ranoidea raniformis'' (growling grass frog)


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 ...
(Australian ground frogs)

*'' Crinia deserticola'' (desert froglet) *'' Crinia parinsignifera'' (eastern sign-bearing froglet) *'' Crinia riparia'' (streambank froglet) *''
Crinia signifera The common eastern froglet (''Crinia signifera'') is a very common, Australian ground-dwelling frog, of the family Myobatrachidae. Distribution The common eastern froglet ranges from southeastern Australia, from Adelaide to Melbourne, up the ea ...
'' (common eastern froglet) *'' Geocrinia laevis'' (southern smooth froglet) *''
Opisthodon spenceri Spencer's burrowing frog (''Platyplectrum spenceri'') is a species of frog native to western and central Australia. Description Spencer's burrowing frog is very similar in appearance to the ornate burrowing frog (''Platyplectrum ornatus''). Bot ...
'' (Spencer's burrowing frog) *'' Pseudophryne bibronii'' (Bibron's toadlet) *'' Pseudophryne occidentalis'' (orange-crowned toadlet) *'' Pseudophryne semimarmorata'' (southern toadlet) *'' Uperoleia rugosa'' (wrinkled toadlet)


Sources

*https://web.archive.org/web/20080426171922/http://www.epa.sa.gov.au/frogcensus/sa_frogs.html *http://frogs.org.au/frogs/of/South_Australia/
Amphibians of South Australia Amphibians are tetrapod, four-limbed and ectothermic vertebrates of the Class (biology), class Amphibia. All living amphibians belong to the group Lissamphibia. They inhabit a wide variety of habitats, with most species living within terres ...
Amphibians Amphibians are four-limbed and ectothermic vertebrates of the class Amphibia. All living amphibians belong to the group Lissamphibia. They inhabit a wide variety of habitats, with most species living within terrestrial, fossorial, arbore ...
South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...