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Threatened Frogs of Queensland
Extinct
Southern Platypus Frog, Rheobatrachus silus
Northern Platypus Frog, Rheobatrachus vitellinus
Sharp Snouted Day Frog, Taudactylus acutirostris
Southern Day Frog, Taudactylus diurnus
Critically endangered
Armoured Mist Frog, Litoria lorica
Mountain Mist Frog, Litoria nyakalensis
Endangered
Northern Tinkerfrog, Taudactylus rheophilus
Waterfall Frog, Litoria nannotis
Common Mist Frog, Litoria rheocola
Australian Lacelid, Nyctimystes dayi
Eungella Day Frog, Taudactylus eungellensis
Fleay's Barred Frog, Mixophyes fleayi
Giant Barred Frog, Mixophyes iteratus
Declining
Freycinet's Frog, Litoria freycineti ***
Green-eyed Tree Frog, Litoria genimaculata
Wallum Sedge Frog, Litoria olongburensis ***
Cascade Treefrog, Litoria pearsoniana
Wallum Froglet, Crinia tinnula ***
Tusked Frog, Adelotus brevis
Presently secure despite population declines
Stony Creek Frog, Litoria wilcoxii
Lesueur's Frog, Litoria lesueuri
Northern Stony Creek Frog, Litoria jungguy
*** 'Acid' frogs live in heaths on the coastal strip and sand islands of south-east Queensland and north-east New South Wales. Habitat destruction and change are death knells for these highly specialised frogs.
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