Kimberley Froglet

Kimberley Froglet
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Myobatrachidae
Genus:	Crinia
Species:	C. fimbriata
Binomial name
Crinia fimbriata Doughty, Anstis & Price, 2009

The Kimberley Froglet, Crinia fimbriata, is an Australian froglet found on the Mitchell Plateau in the north-west region of the Kimberley Mountains in Western Australia.^[1]

As part of National Science Week 2010, the froglet was listed as one of Australia's Top 10 New Species of new Australian species discovered in 2009.^[2]

References

1. ^ Paul Doughty, Marion Anstis & Luke C. Price (2009). "A new species of Crinia (Anura: Myobatrachidae) from the high rainfall zone of the northwest Kimberley, Western Australia" (PDF). Records of the Western Australian Museum 25: 127–144. http://202.14.152.30/collections/natscience/vertebrates/documents/CriniafimbriataWAMRecordsDoughtyetal2009.pdf. 
2. ^ "Australia's Top 10 New Species. Which Did Australia Choose as No. 1?". Bush Blitz. 2010. http://www.bushblitz.org.au/topten.php.