Wilcox's frog

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Wilcox's frog
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Clade: Ranoidea
Species:
R. wilcoxii
Binomial name
Ranoidea wilcoxii
(Günther, 1864)[2]
Synonyms
  • Litoria wilcoxii (Günther, 1864)
  • Hyla (Litoria) wilcoxi (Keferstein, 1868)
  • Hyla vinosa (Lamb, 1911)
  • Hyla lesueuri var. vinosa (Fry, 1912)
  • Hyla kinghorni (Loveridge, 1950)
  • Litoria kinghorni (Tyler, 1971)
  • Litoria vinosa (Tyler, 1971)
  • Dryopsophus wilcoxi (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016)
  • Ranoidea wilcoxi (Dubois and Frétey, 2016)[2]

Wilcox's frog, Kinghorn's tree frog, or Ithica Creek treefrog (Ranoidea wilcoxii) is a tree frog from Australia. It lives in Queensland and New South Wales.[2][3]

The adult male frog is 3.5 to 4.8 cm long and the adult female frog is 3.9 to 6.5 cm long. This frog is light brown. Some frogs have markings and some do not. This frog has a black and yellow stripe down each side of its body. The eggs are dark in color. The female frog lays eggs at the edges of streams where the water does not flow quickly or under rocks in the water. This frog can catch the fungal disease chytridiomycosis.[3]

References[change | change source]

  1. Simon Stuart (2006). "Litoria wilcoxii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T61788A12545407. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T61788A12545407.en. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Ranoidea wilcoxii (Günther, 1864)". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Ketti Augusztiny (October 26, 2004). "Litoria wilcoxii". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved October 7, 2020.