Kimberly water-holding frog facts for kids

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Quick facts for kids Kimberly water-holding frog
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification

Synonyms
Cyclorana longipes (Tyler and Martin, 1977) Litoria (Cyclorana) longipes (Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006) Dryopsophus longipes (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016) Ranoidea longipes (Dubois and Frétey, 2016)

The Kimberly water-holding frog, long-footed frog, collared frog, blotchy frog or variegated burrowing frog (Ranoidea longipes) is a frog from Australia. It lives in the Kimberly region in Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland.

This frog lives in grasslands. It likes to dig in the ground. The females lay eggs in shallow water, 50 to 2000 at a time. The tadpoles grow into frogs after one month.

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