Hidden-ear frog

The hidden-ear frog or earless water-holding frog (Ranoidea cryptotis) is a frog from Australia. It lives in the Kimberly region in the Ord and Fitzroy Valleys. It lives in Western Australia and small parts of Queensland and the Northern Territory.^[2][3]

Hidden-ear frog
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Pelodryadidae
Genus:	Ranoidea
Species:	R. cryptotis
Binomial name
Ranoidea cryptotis (Péron, 1807)
Where the hidden ear frog lives.
Synonyms
Cyclorana cryptotis Tyler, 1977 Litoria (Cyclorana) cryptotis Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006 Dryopsophus cryptotis Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016 Ranoidea cryptotis Dubois and Frétey, 2016[1]

The adult male frog is 3.4 to 4.6 cm long. The adult female frog is 3.6 to 4.8 cm long. This frog has a round body and a small head. It does not have any webbing on its front feet. This frog can be gray or brown. Adult frogs can have a mottled pattern. It has five stripes running across its body from the sides. They can be bright orange in color.^[4]

This frog waits for wet weather before it lays eggs. It lays its eggs in pools of water. The water can be very hot, 40°C. It can be white and full of clay. The tadpoles can be 4.6 cm long. They have five rows of teeth, two on the top and three on the bottom. The tadpoles take about one month to become frogs.^[2]