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The Action Plan for Australian Frogs

Wildlife Australia, April 1997
ISBN 0 6422 1400 X

Contents

The views and opinions expressed in this report are those of the author and contributors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Commonwealth Government, the Minister for the Environment, the Director of National Parks and Wildlife, or State and Territory conservation agencies.

FOREWORD
SUMMARY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Definitions and Conservation Status Criteria
Nomenclature
Causal factors
Recommendations
References
SPECIES RECOVERY OUTLINES
HYLIDAE
1. Litoria aurea Green and Golden Bell Frog

2. Litoria castanea Yellow-Spotted Tree Frog

3. Litoria lorica Armoured Frog

4. Litoria nannotis Torrent Tree Frog

5. Litoria nyakalensis Nyakala Frog

6. Litoria olongburensis Wallum Sedge Frog

7. Litoria piperata Peppered Tree Frog

8. Litoria raniformis Southern Bell Frog

9. Litoria rheocola Creek Frog

10. Litoria spenceri Spotted Tree Frog

11. Litoria verreauxii alpina Alpine Tree Frog

12. Nyctimystes dayi Day's Frog

LEPTODACTYLIDAE

13. Gen. nov. sp. nov. Sunset Frog

14. Geocrinia alba White-bellied Frog

15. Geocrinia vitellina Orange-bellied Frog

16. Mixophyes balbus Stuttering Frog

17. Mixophyes fleayi Fleay's Frog

18. Mixophyes iteratus Southern Barred Frog

19. Philoria frosti Baw Baw Frog

20. Pseudophryne corroboree Southern Corroboree Frog

21. Rheobatrachus silus Gastric Brooding Frog

22. Eungella_Rheobatrachus vitellinus Eungella Gastric Brooding Frog

23. Taudactylus acutirostris Sharp-nosed Torrent Frog

24. Taudactylus diurnus Mt Glorious Torrent Frog

25. Taudactylus eungellensis Eungella Torrent Frog

26. Taudactylus pleione Kroombit Tinker Frog

27. Taudactylus rheophilus Tinkling Frog

APPENDICES

Appendix 1: Checklist of Australian frogs

Appendix 2: The conservation status of Australian frogs

Appendix 3: Insufficiently known species that may be of concern

Appendix 4: Postulated Causes of Decline and Likely Threats

Appendix 5: List of herpetological authorities consulted

Please Note: Under the EPBC Act new categories have been added for listed threatened species and ecological communities. Critically endangered, conservation dependant and extinct in the wild have been added to the previous categories of endangered, vulnerable and extinct for threatened species and critically endangered and vulnerable have been added to the previous category of endangered for ecological communities. Threatened Animal Species, Threatened Plant Species

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