Growling grass frog

Growling grass frog
Conservation status
	; Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Clade:	Ranoidea
Species:	R. raniformis
Binomial name
	Ranoidea raniformis; (Keferstein, 1867)
Synonyms
	Chirodryas raniformis (Keferstein, 1867); Hyla aurea raniformis (Parker, 1938); Hyla aurea major (Copland, 1957); Hyla aureus raniformis (Copland, 1963); Litoria aurea raniformis (Tyler, 1971); Litoria raniformis (Courtice and Grigg, 1975); Ranoidea major (Wells and Wellington, 1985); Ranoidea raniformis (Wells and Wellington, 1985); Dryopsophos raniformis (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016); Ranoidea raniformis (Dubois and Frétey, 2016) ;

The growling grass frog, green and gold frog, blue-thighed tree frog, southern bell frog, warty bell frog or green and golden frog (Ranoidea raniformis) is a tree frog from Australia. It lives in South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria. It also lives in Tasmania. It lives in New Zealand as an invasive specie.^[2]^[3]

When people see this frog, it is usually sitting on plants near ponds, dams or other bodies of water that do not dry up. It sometimes hides under logs. Sometimes the tadpoles become frogs in the fall and sometimes they stay tadpoles through the winter and become frogs in the spring.^[3]

Scientists are not sure why this frog is endangered. It could be because there is more ultraviolet radiation than there used to be. It could be because invasive species, for example the eastern mosquitofish, eat its eggs and tadpoles. This frog can also catch the fungal disease chytridiomycosis.^[3]

References

↑ Hero, J.; Gillespie, G.; Lemckert, F.; Littlejohn, M.; Robertson, P.; Brereton, R.; Brown, P. (2004). "Green and Gold Frog: Litoria raniformis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T12152A86177064. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T12152A3327485.en. Retrieved September 29, 2020.{{cite iucn}}: error: |doi= / |url= mismatch (help)
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 "Ranoidea raniformis (Keferstein, 1867)". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 J.M. Hero; G. Gillespie; L. Shoo; M. Stoneham (March 15, 2002). "Litoria raniformis: Southern Bell Frog, Warty Bell Frog, Green and Gold Frog, Southern Bell Frog". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved September 29, 2020.

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[IUCN-1] Hero, J.; Gillespie, G.; Lemckert, F.; Littlejohn, M.; Robertson, P.; Brereton, R.; Brown, P. (2004). "Green and Gold Frog: Litoria raniformis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T12152A86177064. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T12152A3327485.en. Retrieved September 29, 2020.{{cite iucn}}: error: |doi= / |url= mismatch (help)

[AMNH-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 "Ranoidea raniformis (Keferstein, 1867)". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved September 29, 2020.

[Amph-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 J.M. Hero; G. Gillespie; L. Shoo; M. Stoneham (March 15, 2002). "Litoria raniformis: Southern Bell Frog, Warty Bell Frog, Green and Gold Frog, Southern Bell Frog". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved September 29, 2020.

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