Northern Sandhill Frog
Arenophryne rotunda
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Amphibians
The northern sandhill frog is a small, fossorial frog native to a small region of the Western Australian coast. It was formerly considered the sole species within the genus Arenophryne until the first decade of the 2000s, when a new species of frog called the southern sandhill frog was discovered about 100 kilometres from Geraldton, Western Australia in Kalbarri National Park and given the scientific name Arenophryne xiphorhyncha.
Classification
- Class
- Amphibia
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Myobatrachidae
- Genus
- Arenophryne