Shoemaker frog
| Shoemaker Frog | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Myobatrachidae |
| Genus: | Neobatrachus |
| Species: | N. sutor |
| Binomial name | |
| Neobatrachus sutor Main, 1957 | |
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The Shoemaker Frog (Neobatrachus sutor) is an Australian Frog which lives in Western Australia. It is a species of frog in the Limnodynastidae family. Its natural habitats are temperate shrub land, subtropical or tropical dry shrub land, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, intermittent freshwater marshes, hot deserts, and temperate desert. The frog is named after the noise they make which sounds like a hammer in use. The frog is yellow to golden in colour. It usually has some brown blotches. When they breed, the female frog lays 200 – 1000 eggs.
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