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Myobatrachidae

Index Myobatrachidae

The Myobatrachidae (commonly known as the Australian ground frogs) are a family of frogs found in Australia and New Guinea. [1]

42 relations: Amphibian, Animal, Aquatic animal, Arboreal locomotion, Arenophryne, Australia, Barred frogs, Bufonoidea, Chordate, Common eastern froglet, Crinia, Egg, Family (biology), Frog, Gastric-brooding frog, Geocrinia, Giant barred frog, Haswell's frog, Heleioporus, Hermann Schlegel, Lechriodus, Limnodynastes, Metacrinia, Metamorphosis, Myobatrachus gouldii, Neobatrachia, Neobatrachus, New Guinea, Notaden, Oligocene, Opisthodon, Philoria, Pouched frog, Pseudophryne, Sandhill frog, Species, Spicospina, Tadpole, Taudactylus, Tree frog, Tusked frog, Uperoleia.

Amphibian

Amphibians are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates of the class Amphibia.

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Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Aquatic animal

A aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in the water for most or all of its lifetime.

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Arboreal locomotion

Arboreal locomotion is the locomotion of animals in trees.

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Arenophryne

Arenophryne is a small genus of Myobatrachid frogs from coastal Western Australia.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Barred frogs

The barred frogs are a group of frogs in the genus Mixophyes.

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Bufonoidea

Bufonoidea was a proposed superfamily of frogs.

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Chordate

A chordate is an animal belonging to the phylum Chordata; chordates possess a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail, for at least some period of their life cycle.

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Common eastern froglet

The common eastern froglet (Crinia signifera) is a very common, Australian ground-dwelling frog, of the family Myobatrachidae.

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Crinia

Crinia is a genus of frog, native to Australia, and part of the family Myobatrachidae.

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Egg

An egg is the organic vessel containing the zygote in which an animal embryo develops until it can survive on its own; at which point the animal hatches.

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Family (biology)

In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.

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Frog

A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (Ancient Greek ἀν-, without + οὐρά, tail).

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Gastric-brooding frog

The gastric-brooding frogs or platypus frogs (Rheobatrachus) were a genus of ground-dwelling frogs native to Queensland in eastern Australia.

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Geocrinia

Geocrinia is a genus of frogs in the family Myobatrachidae.

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Giant barred frog

The giant barred frog, Mixophyes iteratus, is a species of barred frogs in Australia.

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Haswell's frog

The Haswell's frog (Paracrinia haswelli) is a small ground frog found around coastal swamps in eastern Australia from around Port Macquarie, New South Wales to the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria.

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Heleioporus

Heleioporus is a genus of frogs native to Australia.

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Hermann Schlegel

Hermann Schlegel (10 June 1804 – 17 January 1884) was a German ornithologist and herpetologist.

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Lechriodus

The Lechriodus is a genus of ground-dwelling from the family Myobatrachidae, native to eastern Australia and New Guinea.

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Limnodynastes

Limnodynastes (commonly known as the Australian swamp frogs) is a genus of frog native to Australia, southern New Guinea and some Torres Strait Islands.

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Metacrinia

Metacrinia nichollsi is a species of Australian frog, commonly named as the forest (or Nicholls') toadlet.

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Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation.

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Myobatrachus gouldii

Myobatrachus gouldii, the tortoise frog, is a Western Australian frog and the only species in the genus Myobatrachus.

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Neobatrachia

The Neobatrachia are a suborder of the Anura, the order of frogs and toads.

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Neobatrachus

Neobatrachus is a genus of burrowing ground frogs native to Australia.

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New Guinea

New Guinea (Nugini or, more commonly known, Papua, historically, Irian) is a large island off the continent of Australia.

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Notaden

Notaden is a genus of burrowing ground frogs native to central and northern Australia.

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Oligocene

The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.

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Opisthodon

Opisthodon is a small genus of Limnodynastine frogs with only two species.

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Philoria

Philoria is a genus of frogs native to eastern and southern Australia.

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Pouched frog

The pouched frog (Assa darlingtoni) is a small, terrestrial frog found in rainforests in mountain areas of south-eastern Queensland and northern New South Wales, Australia.

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Pseudophryne

Pseudophryne is a genus of small myobatrachid frogs.

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Sandhill frog

The northern sandhill frog (Arenophryne rotunda) is a small, fossorial frog native to a small region of the Western Australian coast.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Spicospina

First discovered in the year 1994, the Aussie Sunset Frog (Spicospina flammocaerulea) is a species of ground-dwelling frog native to south-west Western Australia.

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Tadpole

A tadpole (also called a pollywog) is the larval stage in the life cycle of an amphibian, particularly that of a frog or toad.

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Taudactylus

Taudactylus is a genus of frogs in the family Myobatrachidae.

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Tree frog

A tree frog is any species of frog that spends a major portion of its lifespan in trees, known as an arboreal state.

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Tusked frog

The tusked frog (Adelotus brevis) is a species of ground-dwelling frog native to eastern Australia from Eungella National Park, Queensland south to Ourimbah, New South Wales.

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Uperoleia

Uperoleia is a genus of frogs in the family Myobatrachidae.

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Australian ground frog, Australian ground frogs, Limnodynastidae, Limnodynastinae, Myobatrachid, Myobatrachinae.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myobatrachidae

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