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Rheobatrachus vitellinus (Northern Gastric-brooding Frog)

Wikipedia Abstract

The gastric-brooding frogs or platypus frogs (Rheobatrachus) were a genus of ground-dwelling frogs native to Queensland in eastern Australia. The genus consisted of only two species, both of which became extinct in the mid-1980s. The genus was unique because it contained the only two known frog species that incubated the prejuvenile stages of their offspring in the stomach of the mother.
View Wikipedia Record: Rheobatrachus vitellinus

Endangered Species

Status: Extinct
View IUCN Record: Rheobatrachus vitellinus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  21.38 grams
Litter Size [1]  22
Litters / Year [1]  1
Snout to Vent Length [1]  3.15 inches (8 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Queensland tropical rain forests Australia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests  

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External References

Citations

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.
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