Wallum
Froglet
Crinia tinnula
The tiny Wallum
Froglet lives in the coastal heaths and wetlands from Sydney to south-eastern
Queensland. Its appearance varies - its skin can be smooth, warty or ridged
and range in colour from brown to grey, usually with a white stripe from
its chin to its belly.
Along with the Cooloolah
Tree frog, the Olongburra Frog and the Freycinet’s Frog, the Wallum
Froglet forms the group of native acid frogs which only breed in areas
of low pH.
The Wallum Froglet
inhabits acid paperbark swamps and Wallum country, ranging from heath
plains to rainforests.
The Foundation for
National Parks & Wildlife funded research into the ecology and physiology
of the Wallum Froglet, which is easily confused with two other similar
species, to enable targeted conservation actions.
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