Crinia tinnula - Wallum Froglet

Click on thumb nail for larger image. 88 K

Identification: Length 20 mm. Highly variable brownish or greyish frog; back smooth, warty or ridged; underside granular with uniform dull grey and fine mottling or flecking and usually a narrow white line from chin down to belly. Fingers and toes long and unwebbed.

Habitat and Range: Restricted to the acidic paperbark swamps in the wallum areas of Bribie, Moreton and Stradbroke Islands and a few pockets on adjacent mainland. Coastal south eastern Qld and northern NSW.

Mating Call: Short high pitched ringing "tching-tching". 101 K

Spawn: Small eggs, 1.1-1.2 mm, laid in clumps attached to submerged vegetation, in static water.

Tadpoles: Short tailed, fat bodied tadpoles with low tail fins