Main's frog

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Olive water-holding frog
Scientific classification Edit this 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[2]
  • 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[change | change source]

  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)
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Ranoidea maini (Tyler and Martin, 1977)". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
  3. 3.0 3.1 J-M Hero (May 6, 2002). "Cyclorana maini: Main's Frog". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Sheep or Main's Frog: Cyclorana maini Tyler & Martin 1977". Western Australia Museum. 2013. Retrieved September 16, 2020.