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Wailing frog
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Genus:
Ranoidea
Species:
vagitus
Synonyms
  • Cylcorana vagitus (Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1981)
  • Litoria (Cyclorana) vagitus (Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006)
  • Cyclorana vagita (Tyler and Knight, 2009)
  • Dryopsophus vagitus (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016)
  • Ranoidea vagitus (Dubois and Frétey, 2016)

The wailing frog or crying water-holding frog (Ranoidea vagitus) is a frog from Australia. It lives in Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

This frog lives in grassy places with few trees.

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