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Knife-footed frog
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Genus:
Ranoidea (genus)
Species:
cultripes
Synonyms
  • Cyclorana cultripes (Parker, 1940)
  • Litoria (Cyclorana) cultripes (Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006)
  • Dryopsophus cultripes (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016)
  • Ranoidea cultripes (Dubois and Frétey, 2016)

The knife-footed tree frog, olive water-holding frog or desert collared frog (Ranoidea cultripes) is a frog from Australia. It lives in the Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia.

The adult male frog is 4.1 cm long and the adult female frog is 4.3 cm long. Their front feet are not webbed and their back feet have only a little webbing. This frog digs in the ground to make a burrow, where it hides. This frog is gray-brown or olive-brown in color with a thin stripe in the middle of its back down its spine.

This frog lives on flood plains near small streams. It comes aboveground after rain. Scientists do not know what its tadpoles are like.


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Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Ranoidea cultripes para niños

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