The green and golden bell frog is a ground-dwelling tree frog native to eastern Australia. It can reach up to 11 cm in length, making it one of Australia’s largest frogs. The frogs are voracious eaters of insects, but will also eat larger prey, such as worms and mice. Males engage in cannibalism and males frequently attack and injure one another if they infringe on one another’s space.
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The green and golden bell frog is a ground-dwelling tree frog native to eastern Australia. It can reach up to 11 cm in length, making it one of Australia’s largest frogs. The frogs are voracious eaters of insects, but will also eat larger prey, such as worms and mice. Males engage in cannibalism, and males frequently attack and injure one another if they infringe on one another’s space. Though once one of the most common frogs in south-east Australia, the green and gold bell frog has endured major population declines, particularly in highland areas. Its numbers have continued to fall and are threatened by habitat loss and degradation, pollution, introduced species, and parasites and pathogens, including the chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Some frog populations have survived with more success in New Zealand and several other Pacific islands, where it has been introduced. The species is now classified within the Ranoidea aurea complex, a closely related group of frogs in the genus Ranoida. This complex is scattered throughout Australia: three species occur in South Australia, one in northern Australia, and two in Southwest Australia. The tablelands bellfrog has not been seen since 1980 and may now be extinct, although the large yellow spots on its thighs may help distinguish it from the red bell frog. It has also been proposed that some populations of a subspecies of R. raniformis, located near New South Wales, could be a separate subspecies.
Albumological data suggest no distance between the two species is more than two inches (4.5cm) long. The red bellfrog is equally closely related to the green bell frog and most closely to the castanea frog, which can grow up to 10 inches (2.5 metres) in length. It is the only species of frog in Australia that can grow to 11 inches (3.5 meters) in height. The green and yellow bell frog can only be readily distinguished by the raised bumps on its dorsal surface, which is very similar to the yellow-spotted grass frog, although it is very different from the greenBell frog. The common name was first adopted by Harold Cogger in his 1975 book Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia. It has a pointy snout, long legs, and almost complete toe webbing; the tympanum is large and distinct; and the overall body shape is similar to many Rana species. It was removed from the. genus Rana because of anatomical differences with the family Ranidae. The bone and cartilage structural formations of the green, golden, and red bell frogs are closest to those of species in the family Hylidae; it was therefore reclassified as Rana. The frog is also the closest species to the ranifomis, which has a two-inch (5.7cm) dorsal surface. It may be difficult to distinguish between the species, but a microcominological analysis using serum albumins has indicated that the two are a separate species.
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