Stuttering Barred Frog (Mixophyes balbus)

Stuttering Barred Frog (Mixophyes balbus), Mid-north Coast, New South Wales.

 

It was very dry in the forest this time of the year and one of the creeks had no water except for a small pool with tadpoles of this species. I spotted this juvenile sitting a few metres away in the leaf litter where it had begun to develop the characteristic blue upper-eye of the adult.

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