Crawling Toadlet
Pseudophryne guentheri
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The Crawling Toadlet (Pseudophryne guentheri) is a species of frog in the Myobatrachidae family. It is endemic to southwest Western Australia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, intermittent rivers and swamps. A small robust-bodied frog with short hindlegs with well developed metatarsal tubercles. Commonly occurs beneath ground cover such as rocks, timber and dead leaves. The eggs are laid on land in burrows in sandy soil. The nest is guarded by the male. Tadpoles are released into water bodies after the nest is flooded by rain and take 3 months to develop into frogs.
Breeds autumn to winter.
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- (c) Friends of The Porongurup Range, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Friends of The Porongurup Range
- Adapted by Loxley Fedec from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://www.inaturalist.org/guide_taxa/1082827
