Spotted Marsh Frog, Limnodynastes tasmaniensis
Plate 42, Figure 1. The Spotted Marsh-Frog, Lymnodynastes tasmaniensis (now known as the Spotted Marsh Frog, Limnodynastes tasmaniensis) found in Melbourne
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Watercolour and pencil illustrations - Eastern Banjo Frog, Limnodynastes dumerilii, Brighton, Victoria, Arthur Bartholomew, 1861
This beautiful little species is not uncommon in marshy places and shallow waters about Melbourne, where it forms a favourite food of snakes. At the end of November the young, about 1 inch long, takes to the land, having its four limbs perfect, but with a tail half an inch long remaining. The diapophyses of the last sacral vertebræ are only slightly widened at their distal ends.