Kroombit tinker frog
Kroombit tinker frog | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Myobatrachidae |
Genus: | Taudactylus |
Species: | T. pleione
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Binomial name | |
Taudactylus pleione Czechura, 1986
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The Kroombit tinker frog (Taudactylus pleione), also sometimes referred to as Pleione's torrent frog,leaf litter near small flowing streams.[1]
Conservation
As most other members of the genus habitat loss.[4]
It is listed as Critically Endangered on the
EPBC Act.[2]
As of November 2020[update], it was estimated fewer than 200 remained in the wild, in areas of tropical rainforest at Kroombit Tops National Park, approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) south-west of Gladstone. The major threat to its existence, apart from climate change, less habitat and certain pests, remains chytrid fungus.[4]
In 2020, Australian scientists at
wildlife sanctuary came offered a frog-breeding facility in 2008 that the work could properly begin. They eventually managed to bring about a spawning by their captive frogs, and the first tadpole metamorphosed into a frog in November 2020.[4]
References
- ^ doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T21533A9299456.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.)
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - ^ a b "Taudactylus pleione - Kroombit Tinker Frog, Pleione's Torrent Frog". Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. Australian Government. 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
- . Retrieved 29 December 2020.
- ^ a b c Stünzner, Inga (15 November 2020). "Endangered Kroombit tinker frog bred in captivity for first time after 20 years of trying". ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Retrieved 26 December 2020.