Shoemaker frog

Shoemaker Frog
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Myobatrachidae
Genus: Neobatrachus
Species: N. sutor
Binomial name
Neobatrachus sutor
Main, 1957

The Shoemaker Frog (Neobatrachus sutor) is an Australian Frog which lives in Western Australia. It is a species of frog in the Limnodynastidae family. Its natural habitats are temperate shrub land, subtropical or tropical dry shrub land, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, intermittent freshwater marshes, hot deserts, and temperate desert. The frog is named after the noise they make which sounds like a hammer in use. The frog is yellow to golden in colour. It usually has some brown blotches. When they breed, the female frog lays 200 – 1000 eggs.

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