Eastern smooth frog

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Eastern smooth frog
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Myobatrachidae
Genus: Geocrinia
Species:
G. victoriana
Binomial name
Geocrinia victoriana
(Boulenger, 1888)
Geocrinia victoriana map-fr.svg
Synonyms

Victorian smooth froglet

The eastern smooth frog (Geocrinia victoriana), or Victorian smooth froglet, is a species of frog in the family Myobatrachidae. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate moist lowland forests, temperate dry shrubland, temperate moist shrubland, temperate high-altitude shrubland, temperate dry lowland grassland, swamps, and intermittent freshwater marshes.

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References

  1. Dale Roberts, John Clarke, Peter Robertson (2004). "Geocrinia victoriana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2004: e.T41148A10406081. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T41148A10406081.en . Retrieved 17 November 2021.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)