Corroborre Toadlet
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ID#33
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Classification: Amphibian
Endangered Status: High risk Habitat: wet flooded grasslands, bogs, high altitudes or marshes The corroboree toadlet has slightly watery skin, is stout with short limbs has small parotid glands. Also, the toadlet has bold black and yellow spots and strips on its body. The corroboree toadlet is 1.18-1.57 inches from head to toe. The corroboree toadlet is active night and day trying to find food. The corroboree toadlet eats many poisonous bugs and small living organisms. The poison goes to small glands in their skin which then becomes the frog’s main defense against predators. The corroboree toadlet lives in a mossy burrow in flooded marshes or bogs. The corroborre toadlet breeds during the summer time and the female can lay 6 to 40 large eggs at once. The male will make a burrow and call from it to a female months before. The eggs will not develop until rain falls into the mossy burrow. So the eggs take 4 to 6 months to hatch. Then the tad poles take another 6 to 8 months to reach metamorphosis. Also, the toadlet has a really loud call so the males can get the females to hear them when they call for breeding mates. The toadlet is easily recognizable for its colors. The toadlet is very endangered and can only be found in South Wales Australia. |