Spotted Marsh Frog

Description:

Adult length: 30-47mm. 80 to 1500 pigmented eggs are contained within a floating foam mass measuring between 50 and 80mm in diameter. Tadpoles are olive grey, dark grey, or black, and the fins are usually semi-transparent or light grey. Adults usually have large regularly-shaped olive green blotches on the back and sometimes have a yellow, red, or orange mid-dorsal stripe.

Habitat:

Adults are most often associated with wet areas, flood plains, and semi-permanent water in habitats ranging from open forests and woodlands through shrublands and grasslands and including open and disturbed areas. Often common on farms and in farms dams. Eggs and tadpoles can both be found in still water in dams, streamside ponds, lakes, swamps, and flooded grasslands.

Notes:

http://frogs.org.au/frogs/species/Limnod...