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- Title
Observations of Giant Burrowing Frogs Heleioporus australiacus (Limnodynastidae) in the Mitchell River catchment, East Gippsland, Victoria.
- Authors
Bilney, Rohan J.
- Abstract
Within Victoria, limited records of the threatened Giant Burrowing Frog have been obtained in recent decades. This paper describes 16 records of calling Giant Burrowing Frogs from four tributaries of the Mitchell River system in the Mount Alfred State Forest and Mitchell River National Park, Victoria. Stream condition was a major determinant of calling activity, with calling detected only in pools with no or slow flow, within first, second and fourth order streams, often with sandstone bases. Calling was not always closely associated with rainfall, and occurred across most seasons.
- Subjects
GIPPSLAND (Vic.); AUSTRALIA; SMILISCA; HYLIDAE; SOUND production by amphibians; FROG ecology; WATERSHEDS; BEHAVIOR
- Publication
Victorian Naturalist, 2015, Vol 132, Issue 5, p128
- ISSN
0042-5184
- Publication type
Article