Western marsh frog

Hooting frog
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Limnodynastidae
Genus: Heleioporus
Species: H. barycragus
Binomial name
Heleioporus barycragus
Lee, 1967

The hooting frog[1][2] (Heleioporus barycragus) is a species of frog in the family Limnodynastidae. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and intermittent rivers.

The hooting frog is the largest member of the genus Heleioporus found in Western Australia. Like all west Australian species it breeds in late autumn and winter, calling from a burrow in which the female later deposits a foamy egg mass. Males excavate burrows in the banks of bottom of dry watercourses, usually lateritic clay based streams of the Darling Range.

barycragus means 'deep-voiced' in reference to the low 'hooting' call that also gives its common name. The rarely used alternative name "Western Marsh Frog" is a confusing misnomen as the species does not occur in or near marshes, and another species Limnodynastes dorsalis may be confused with this name.

References

  1. ↑ "Hooting Frog | Western Australian Museum". Western Australian Museum. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  2. ↑ "Australian Museum FrogID Project". www.frogid.net.au. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  • Hero, J.-M.; Roberts, D. (2004). "Heleioporus barycragus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2004: e.T41149A10406210. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T41149A10406210.en. Retrieved 22 December 2017.


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