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Shoemaker frog

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Order
  
Anura

Genus
  
Neobatrachus

Higher classification
  
Neobatrachus

Phylum
  
Chordata

Family
  
Myobatrachidae

Scientific name
  
Neobatrachus sutor

Rank
  
Species

Shoemaker frog

Similar
  
Neobatrachus, Desert spadefoot toad, Main's frog, Trilling frog, Humming frog

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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Shoemaker frog Wikipedia