- Shoemaker Frog
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Shoemaker Frog Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Order: Anura Family: Myobatrachidae Genus: Neobatrachus Species: N. sutor Binomial name Neobatrachus sutor
Main, 1957The 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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Categories:- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Neobatrachus
- Amphibians of South Australia
- Amphibians of Western Australia
- Amphibians of the Northern Territory
- Myobatrachidae stubs
- Western Australia stubs
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