Limnodynastes tasmaniensis (Spotted Grass Frog)
The Spotted Grass Frog is one of the most common frogs within its range. It is usually found in association with water, and in dry periods shelters in cracks in the ground, usually under large rocks. Some have a stripe down the centre of their back, but the stripe is missing from the rest.
Family: Myobatrachidae
Adult length: 30-47mm.
Current conservation status: Common.
Distribution: Widespread below 900 m in ACT. It is one of the most common frogs within its range.
Appearance: A relatively large frog in the region, this species is conspicuously blotches in a neat pattern of dark and light markings. Many individuals have a distinctive red or orange stripe down the centre of the back. A line of white granular tissue runs from beneath the eye to above the back leg.
Breeding: Calls from September to March. Male frogs call while floating in the water. The egg mass is distinctive, consisting of a small, round, floating, white foamy nest that is usually attached to emergent vegetation.
Habitat: Prefers stading water, including roadside ditches, marshes, swamps, lakes and ponds. Areas with considerable flooded vegetation, such as tussocks and sedges, provide ideal habitat. During dry weather they shelter in deep cracks in the clays of the dry wetlands, beneath large logs and in the base of grass tussocks.
Call: A conspicuous "uck..uck...uck" that sounds a little bit like a toy machine gun.
Limnodynastes tasmaniensis is listed in the following regions:
Canberra & Southern Tablelands | Southern Highlands | Albury, Wodonga | South Coast | Central West NSW | Barwon South West | Loddon Mallee
Species information
- Limnodynastes tasmaniensis Scientific name
- Spotted Grass Frog Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1308.12m Recorded at altitude
- 466 images trained Machine learning
Location information
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Maps
ANBG ANU Dickson Precinct ANU Ellery Precinct ANU Garran Precinct ANU Kingsley Precinct Aranda Bushland Australian National University Banksia Street Wetland Corridor Barneys Hill/Mt Stranger Barracks Flat Drive Reserve Birrigai Black Flat at Corrowong Black Mountain Bluetts Block (402, 403, 12, 11) Boro Bruce Ponds Bruce Ridge Bruce Ridge to Gossan Hill Budjan Galindji (Franklin Grassland) Reserve Bullen Range Callum Brae Campbell Park Woodland Canberra City Farm Central Molonglo City Renewal Authority Area Conder Community Wetlands Cooleman Ridge Cooma North Ridge Reserve Coombs Ponds Coornartha Nature Reserve Cotter Reserve Crace Grasslands Cuumbeun Nature Reserve Dangelong Nature Reserve Dickson Wetland Dickson Wetland Corridor Dryandra St Woodland Dunlop Grasslands Emu Creek Fadden Hills Pond Farrer Ridge Flea Bog Flat to Emu Creek Corridor Flea Bog Flat, Bruce Fyshwick Sewerage Treatment Plant Gang Gang at Yass River Gibraltar Pines Gigerline Nature Reserve Ginninderry Conservation Corridor Giralang Wetlands Googong Foreshore Goorooyarroo NR (ACT) Goulburn Mulwaree Council Goulburn Wetlands Gundaroo Common Gundary TSR Gungaderra Creek Ponds Gungaderra Grasslands Gungahlin Pond Gunn St Wider Blue Green Corridor Hall Cemetery Holder Wetlands Illilanga & Baroona Isaacs Ridge Isaacs Ridge and Nearby Isabella Pond Jarramlee Pond Jarramlee-West MacGregor Grasslands Jerrabomberra Grassland Jerrabomberra Wetlands Kaleen Horse paddocks (North) Kama Kosciuszko National Park Kowen Escarpment Kowen Woodland Lake Burley Griffin Central/East Lake Ginninderra Lake Tuggeranong Lions Youth Haven - Westwood Farm A.C.T. Lower Cotter Catchment Lyneham Wetland Mawson Ponds McKellar Wetlands Melrose Molonglo Gorge Molonglo River Reserve Mongarlowe River Mount Ainslie Mount Jerrabomberra Mount Jerrabomberra QP Mount Majura Mount Mugga Mugga Mount Painter Mount Taylor Mt Holland Mulanggari Grasslands Mulligans Flat Nadjung Mada NR Namadgi National Park National Arboretum Forests National Arboretum Woodland Oakey Hill O'Connor Ridge to Gungahlin Grasslands Percival Hill Pine Island to Point Hut Piney Ridge Point Hut Pond Point Hut to Tharwa Red Hill Nature Reserve Rob Roy Range Sherwood Forest Sth Tablelands Ecosystem Park Stranger Pond Sullivans Creek, Acton Sullivans Creek, Lyneham North Sullivans Creek, Lyneham South Sullivans Creek, O'Connor The Pinnacle The Ridgeway Reserve Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve Top Hut TSR Tuggeranong Creek to Monash Grassland Tuggeranong Homestead A.C.T. Turallo Nature Reserve Umbagong District Park University of Canberra Upper Stranger Pond Urambi Hills Wandiyali-Environa Conservation Area Wanna Wanna Nature Reserve Wanniassa Hill Watson Green Space Watson Woodlands West Belconnen Pond West Stromlo Woodstock Nature Reserve Yarramundi Grassland Yerrabi Pond -
Places
Belconnen, ACT Billilingra, NSW Bonner, ACT Bonython, ACT Bowning, NSW Braidwood, NSW Bredbo, NSW Burrungubugge, NSW Canberra Central, ACT Captains Flat, NSW Carlaminda, NSW Chakola, NSW Conder, ACT Coombs, ACT Crace, ACT Curtin, ACT Dickson, ACT Duffy, ACT Fadden, ACT Farrer, ACT Fisher, ACT Florey, ACT Franklin, ACT Glen Fergus, NSW Gordon, ACT Gowrie, ACT Greenway, ACT Harrison, ACT Hawker, ACT Hoskinstown, NSW Hughes, ACT Hume, ACT Isabella Plains, ACT Kaleen, ACT Kambah, ACT Karabar, NSW Kingston, ACT Krawarree, NSW Lake George, NSW Lyneham, ACT Macarthur, ACT Marchmont, NSW McKellar, ACT Mitchell, ACT Monash, ACT Mount Clear, ACT Murrumbateman, NSW Nanima, NSW Nicholls, ACT Nimmitabel, NSW Numeralla, NSW Oaks Estate, ACT O'Connor, ACT O'Malley, ACT Page, ACT Pialligo, ACT Queanbeyan, NSW Richardson, ACT Rose Valley, NSW Royalla, NSW Springrange, NSW Tuggeranong, ACT Urila, NSW Wallaroo, NSW Watson, ACT Winifred, NSW Yass, NSW
