Main's frog

Olive water-holding frog
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Clade:	Ranoidea
Species:	R. maini
Binomial name
	Ranoidea maini; (Tyler and Martin, 1977)
	This frog lives in places where it is hard to live.
Synonyms
	Cyclorana maini (Tyler and Martin, 1977) ; Litoria (Cyclorana) maini (Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006) ; Dryopsophus maini (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016) ; Ranoidea maini; (Dubois and Frétey, 2016);

Main's water-holding frog, Main's frog, the sheep frog or western collared frog (Ranoidea maini) is a frog from Australia. It lives in the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia.^[2]^[3]

This frog can live on flood plains, claypans, grassland and wetlands that dry up. It lays eggs whenever there is enough water, and the tadpoles grow into frogs quickly.^[3]

This frog is 5.0 cm long with a round body. The skin on its back is gray or brown with darker marks. Some frogs can change the color of their skin, making it much lighter in color in a few hours. Their front feet are not webbed, and their hind feet are webbed about halfway.^[4]

This frog is named after frog scientist Albert Main.^[4]

References

↑ Jean-Marc Hero; Paul Horner; Dale Roberts (2004). "Litoria maini". 2004. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T41073A10396564. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T41073A10396564.en. Retrieved September 16, 2020. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 "Ranoidea maini (Tyler and Martin, 1977)". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 J-M Hero (May 6, 2002). "Cyclorana maini: Main's Frog". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 "Sheep or Main's Frog: Cyclorana maini Tyler & Martin 1977". Western Australia Museum. 2013. Retrieved September 16, 2020.

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[IUCN-1] Jean-Marc Hero; Paul Horner; Dale Roberts (2004). "Litoria maini". 2004. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T41073A10396564. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T41073A10396564.en. Retrieved September 16, 2020. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[Museum-2] 2.0 ^2.1 "Ranoidea maini (Tyler and Martin, 1977)". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved September 16, 2020.

[Amph-3] 3.0 ^3.1 J-M Hero (May 6, 2002). "Cyclorana maini: Main's Frog". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved September 16, 2020.

[WAMuseum-4] 4.0 ^4.1 "Sheep or Main's Frog: Cyclorana maini Tyler & Martin 1977". Western Australia Museum. 2013. Retrieved September 16, 2020.

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