#ranoidea

[herpsandbirds]

Australian Green Tree Frog (Ranoidea caerulea or Litoria caerulea), Metamorph/froglet, family Hylidae, found across northern Australia

Also called Dumpy Tree Frog or White’s Tree Frog.

photograph by FairyTail Dragons LLC

[ljsbugblog]

the largest Green Tree Frog I've ever seen, contemplating the daisies by the pond on a warm rainy night.

Green Tree Frog (Ranoidea/Litoria caerulea).

[snototter]

A cave tree frog (Litoria cavernicola) in Kimberly, West Australia

by Stephen Zozaya

[birdblues]

Red-eyed Tree Frog

[fawnrats]

ashton & their plushies

[drhoz]

#2588 - Ranoidea aurea - Green and Golden Bell Frog

Originally described as Rana aurea, in 1827. Later renamed Litoria aurea.

A large frog deliberately introduced from Sydney to Auckland in the 1870s ( WHYYYYYYYY????????? ). Although in some respects it's just as well it was, because chytrid fungus, habitat loss, predation by the introduced Eastern Mosquitofish Gambusia holbrooki, and pollution has wiped out the frogs from much of their original range in coastal SW Australia. But the populations in Aotearoa and other Pacific islands that they were introduced to are also starting to crash.

The frog survives in some areas of Sydney, including the Brickpit at the proposed site for the tennis courts for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The tennis courts were built elsewhere, thankfully.

Hokitika National Kiwi Centre, Aotearoa New Zealand.

[markscherz]

This, friends, is what it looks like when you draw a frog from a desiccated specimen.

Original print of the Australian green tree frog, published in John White's Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales. Artist: S. Stone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_green_tree_frog

[rattyexplores]

Green Tree Frog found sleeping in rainwater drain.

08/09/23 - Anura: Ranoidea caerulea

QLD:BRB - Townsville

[platypu]

lost in the sauce...

[spookyfoxdreamer]

[kachavashka]

I found a Motorbike Frog (Ranoidea moorei) in my garden the other night.

They came out after a heavy storm and downpour (which is very unusual at this time of the year here in Noongar Country.

[herpsandbirds]

Dainty Green Tree Frog (Ranoidea gracilenta), family Hylidae, found in coastal eastern Australia

Sometimes still referred to as Litoria gracilenta.

photograph by Rob Valentic

[ljsbugblog]

bonus post, not a bug lol. we are frequented by green tree frogs in our bathroom, which we promptly release on a nice leafy pipe outside (after a quick photoshoot, which i thought people might like to see).

Green Tree Frog (Ranoidea caerulea).

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A red eyed tree frog (Ranoidea chloris) in Queensland, Australia

by Tony Jewell

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Australian Green Tree Frog

[typhlonectes]

Scientists make chance discovery of rare blue skin mutation in Kimberley magnificent tree frog

In short:

Ecologists at a remote Western Australian wildlife sanctuary have been amazed to discover a blue tree frog.

It is the only known discovery of a magnificent tree frog with a blue skin pigment mutation.

What's next?

Australian Wildlife Conservancy scientists believe there may be more blue frogs in the Charnley River–Artesian Wildlife Sanctuary in WA's far north.

Magnificent Tree Frog (Ranoidea splendida), family Hylidae

In the far north of Western Australia, 2,500 kilometres north-east of Perth in the Charnley River–Artesian Range Wildlife Sanctuary, field ecologist Jake Barker couldn't believe what he was seeing when he received a photo from one of the sanctuary's land managers. Mr Barker said two land managers were in the workshop when they turned towards a bench and saw a blue magnificent tree frog sitting there. "Seeing the picture of the frog, it definitely elevated my heart rate and I was very excited and then getting down there to see it in person ... it was so cool, it was a really exciting and special thing," he said...

Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-12/scientists-discover-mutant-blue-tree-frog-in-was-kimberley/104082140