Southern gastric-brooding frog  (Rheobatrachus silus)

Range

Endemic to Australia, the southern gastric-brooding frog was first discovered in 1973, and occurred only in the Conondale and Blackall Ranges of southeastern Queensland at an altitude between 400 and 800 metres (2). No wild specimens have been recorded since 1981, and the last captive individual died in 1983 (4).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

This species was aquatic; it inhabited rainforest creeks, pools and streams (2).

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