Species profile—Platyplectrum spenceri (desert burrowing frog)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Amphibia (amphibians) → Limnodynastidae (Australian ground frogs) → Platyplectrum spenceri (desert burrowing frog)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Amphibia (amphibians)
- Family
- Limnodynastidae (Australian ground frogs)
- Scientific name
- Platyplectrum spenceri (Parker, 1940)
- Common name
- desert burrowing frog
- Type reference
- Parker, H.W. (1940). The Australian frogs of the family Leptodactylidae. Novitates Zoologicae 42: 1-106.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 18161
- Synonym(s)
- Opisthodon spenceri
Limnodynastes spenceri - Alternate name(s)
- Spencer's frog
Spencer's burrowing frog - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Wetland status
- Wetland Indicator Species
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Aquatic & Terrestrial
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=18161.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
