Kroombit tinker frog

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Kroombit tinker frog

Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Myobatrachidae
Genus: Taudactylus
Species:
T. pleione
Binomial name
Taudactylus pleione
Czechura, 1986

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

It is listed as Critically Endangered on the

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]

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