Assa (genus)

Assa is a genus of frogs in the family Myobatrachidae. These frogs are endemic to a few parts of eastern Australia.^[1]

Assa
A. darlingtoni
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Myobatrachidae
Genus:	Assa Tyler, 1972
Species
A. darlingtoni A. wollumbin

Both species are found on a few mountains in Queensland and New South Wales. For a significant portion of time, the only species in this genus was the pouched frog (A. darlingtoni). However, a second species, A. wollumbin, was described in 2021 following a rangewide genetic survey of A. darlingtoni. Both species are notable in that the males have subcutaneous pouches on their hips in which they carry their tadpoles until they metamorphosize.^[2][3]

Species

Common name	Binomial name
Pouched frog, hip-pocket frog, or Australian marsupial frog	Assa darlingtoni (Loveridge, 1933)
Wollumbin pouched frog or Mount Wollumbin hip-pocket frog	Assa wollumbin Mahony, Hines, Mahony, Moses, Catalano, Myers, and Donnellan, 2021