The Giant Burrowing Frog is a large grey or dark brown frog with a white underside. It has yellow spots on the side and a yellow stripe on the upper lip. In immatures the lip is an orange pink colour.The skin is rough. During thge breeding season males often have black spines on their fingers. Males call from burrows on the edges of streams after heavy rainfall. ... source: OZ Animals
The Giant Burrowing Frog is a large, rotund, slow-moving frog that grows to about 10 cm long. It is a powerfully built species with muscular hind limbs and enlarged tubercles on the feet well suited to burrowing. Adult males have enlarged forearms, with a large conical black spine and several small spines on their first finger. ... source: Office of Environment and Heritage
| Australian iconic species |
| Accepted name | Source |
|---|---|
| Heleioporus australiacus |
| Synonyms | Source |
|---|---|
| Rana australiaca Shaw & Nodder, 1795 | |
| Published in: Shaw, G. & Nodder, F.P. 1795. Rana australiaca. pl. 200 in, Naturalist's Miscellany. Vol. 6 London | |
| Rana spinipes Schneider, 1799 | |
| Published in: Schneider, J.G. 1799. Historiae Amphibiorum Naturalis et Literariae. fasc. prim Jena : Frommani pp. xvi 266 | |
| Philocryphus flavoguttatus Fletcher, 1894 | |
| Published in: Fletcher, J.J. 1894. Description of a new cystignathoid frog from New South Wales. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. Ser. 2 Vol. 8 pp. 229-236 | |
| Common name | Source |
|---|---|
| Giant Burrowing Frog | |
| Eastern Owl Frog |
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