Bumpy rocket frog
species of amphibian From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The bumpy rocket frog or Peter's frog (Litoria inermis) is a frog from Australia.[2][4] It lives all across the northern and eastern parts of Australia, in Queensland, the Northern Territory, and Western Australia.[5][1]
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An adult frog is 3.5 cm long from nose to rear end. It is light and dark brown with some yellow marks on its legs and a white spot near its jaws. Its front feet have no webbing and its back feet have some webbing. Its skin is bumpy.[2]
The scientists who first wrote about this frog in the 1800s thought it was a burrowing frog, meaning a frog that likes to dig into the ground and spend time underground, but it is not. Its scientific name, "inermis", means "does not have a weapon". Most burrowing frogs have sharp bones in their feet, but the bumpy rocket frog does not. Burrowing frogs use these bones to dig.[2]
This frog lives in flood plains, forests, grasslands, swamps and streams, but it can live in rocky places if there are streams through them.[2][5]
Females lay their eggs 100-300 at a time in temporary bodies of water with no plants in them. The tadpoles can grow to 4 cm.[2]
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