Animalia > Chordata > Amphibia > Anura > Myobatrachidae > Rheobatrachus > Rheobatrachus silus

Rheobatrachus silus (southern gastric brooding frog platypus frog)

Endangered Species

Status: Extinct
View IUCN Record: Rheobatrachus silus

Attributes

Litter Size [2]  30
Litters / Year [2]  1
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [2]  2.126 inches (5.4 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams, Temporary Pools
Adult Weight [2]  11.62 grams
Diet [1]  Carnivore

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Eastern Australian temperate forests Australia Australasia Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
2Oliveira, 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.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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