Dahl's Aquatic Frog

Dahl's Aquatic Frog
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Hylidae
Genus:	Litoria
Species:	L. dahlii
Binomial name
Litoria dahlii (Boulenger, 1896)
Distribution of the Dahl's Aquatic Frog.
Synonyms
Ranoidea dahlii Wells and Wellington, 1985

The Dahl's Aquatic Frog (Litoria dahlii) is a species of frog in the Hylidae family. It is endemic to Australia.

Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes.

Among the more unique traits of Dahl's aquatic frog is its ability to consume the eggs, tadpoles and young of the invasive and venomous cane toad with no apparent ill effect making it, perhaps, the only native Australian creature with a natural immunity to the cane toad's poison.^[1] These observations, however, were made in captivity, but scientists believe there is no reason to suggest that such behaviour does not occur in the wild.^[2]

See also

• Gastric-brooding frog
• Cane toad

References

1. ^ http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1265310.htm
2. ^ http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1265310.htm

• Hero, J.-M., Roberts, D., Horner, P. & Retallick, R. 2004. Litoria dahlii. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 21 July 2007.