''Uperoleia marmorata'' commonly known as the marbled toadlet, is only known by the

holotype A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to have been used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of several ...

collected in the

Kimberley Kimberly or Kimberley may refer to: Places and historical events Australia * Kimberley (Western Australia) ** Roman Catholic Diocese of Kimberley * Kimberley Warm Springs, Tasmania * Kimberley, Tasmania a small town * County of Kimberley, a ...

region of

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by Gray in 1841.

Description

Gray describe the frog as "…black and green marbled, leaving a triangular greenish spot on its forehead, beneath lead colour". This species is likely to have other features similar to other ''

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

'' species such as: red-orange patches in the groin and behind the knees, tubercles and large parotoid glands as well as a granular belly. The frog is likely to be about 30 mm in length. This frog most likely resembles the

Mjoberg's toadlet Mjoberg's toadlet (''Uperoleia mjobergii'') is a species of frog in the family Myobatrachidae. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland A ...

(''Uperoleia mjobergi''), as they inhabit similar areas it is possible to speculate that the holotype of the marbled toadlet was mistake for a Mjoberg's toadlet.

Ecology and behaviour

Due to lack of records on this species habitat and behavioural characteristics have been difficult to assess. The frog is likely to breed in permanent and semi-permanent still water bodies in the Kimberly region. This species was once thought to be widespread across eastern

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, but due to the similarity of frogs within the genus ''Uperoleia'' it was most likely confused with smooth toadlet.

References

Frogs of AustraliaFrogs Australia Network
{{Taxonbar, from=Q2276539 Amphibians of Western Australia Uperoleia Amphibians described in 1841 Taxa named by John Edward Gray Frogs of Australia