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- Title
A call record of the Southern Barred Frog Mixophyes balbus from East Gippsland.
- Authors
Urlus, Jake; Marr, Ruth
- Abstract
The article presents as study in search of the Southern Barred Frog Mixophyes balbus (M. balbus), an endemic frog found along the eastern slopes of the Great Dividing Range from East Gippsland, Victoria to north-eastern New South Wales. Noted is that the frog species has been undergoing widespread decline particularly in Victoria wherein only three sighting of M. balbus have been recorded. A nocturnal survey on March 24, 2011 was conducted at the Thurra River using the call-playback recording.
- Subjects
GREAT Dividing Range; AUSTRALIA; FROGS; ENDEMIC animals; FROG ecology; FROG populations; ANIMAL calls; ENDANGERED species
- Publication
Victorian Naturalist, 2011, Vol 128, Issue 6, p272
- ISSN
0042-5184
- Publication type
Article