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Platyplectrum ornatum (Ornate Burrowing Frog)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The ornate burrowing frog, (Platyplectrum ornatum, formerly Opisthodon ornatus and Limnodynastes ornatus) is a species of ground frog native to Australia. It was moved to the genus Opisthodon in 2006, following a major revision of amphibians, and is now classified in the genus Platyplectrum
View Wikipedia Record: Platyplectrum ornatum

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  5.48 grams
Diet [1]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Litter Size [1]  823
Litters / Year [1]  1
Nocturnal [1]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [1]  1.772 inches (4.5 cm)

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Parasitized by 
Johnpearsonia pearsoni <Unverified Name>[2]
Nematotaenia hylae <Unverified Name>[2]

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Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Oliveira, Brunno Freire; São-Pedro, Vinícius Avelar; Santos-Barrera, Georgina; Penone, Caterina; C. Costa, Gabriel. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Sci. Data.
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0