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Limnodynastes peronii
While trying to walk the dog at night in the rain this thing started flipping about between my feet trying hard to get trodden on. After the third flip I realised it was a frog. It was a medium to large size, about 70mm long, with distinctive alternating patches of light buff and dark brown and a narrow, pale dorsal line on a dark brown background.
On a very wet, dark outer suburban street in rain near midnight.
Although common around Melbourne wetlands there are none of those here. We are on a steep hillside and the nearest natural source of water is about 500m away. These feed on other small frogs.
family: MYOBATRACHIDAE
Distribution in Australia http://spatial.ala.org.au/?q=lsid:%22urn...
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/Limnodynas...
Spotted on Apr 22, 2014
Submitted on Apr 22, 2014
4 Comments
Good to see a species other than L.ewingii, around here..nice shot !
Cool frog :)
Yep two lucky shots-from-the-hip and it was down the drain. Hope it'll be ok down there.
Good shooting in those conditions