Species profile—Cyclorana australis (northern snapping frog)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Amphibia (amphibians) → Hylidae (tree frogs) → Cyclorana australis (northern snapping frog)
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Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Amphibia (amphibians)
- Family
- Hylidae (tree frogs)
- Scientific name
- Cyclorana australis (Gray, 1842)
- Common name
- northern snapping frog
- Type reference
- Gray, J.E. (1842). Description of some hitherto unrecorded species of Australian reptiles and batrachians, in Gray, J.E. (ed.) Zoological Miscellany. London: Treuttel, Wurtz & Co. pp. 51-57 [56].
- WildNet taxon ID
- 642
- Synonym(s)
- Dryopsophus australis
Ranoidea australis
Litoria australis - Alternate name(s)
- northern snapping-frog
giant 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
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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=642.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
