Northern dwarf tree frog | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Pelodryadidae |
Genus: | Litoria |
Species: | L. bicolor
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Binomial name | |
Litoria bicolor Gray, 1842
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Range of the northern dwarf tree frog in Australia. | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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The northern dwarf tree frog, dwarf tree frog, lined grass frog, green reed frog, Pandan frog, bicolored grass frog or northern sedge frog (Litoria bicolor)[1] is a tree frog from Australia.[2] It lives all along the coast of northern Australia.[3]
Adult frogs are about 3 cm long from nose to rear end. They have a little bit of webbing on their front feet and more webbing on their hind feet.[4] They are green with a bronze stripe over each eye going down their bodies. There is a white stripe under the bronze stripe.[5] The youngest frogs are brown but they turn green as they grow older.[2]
They live in wetlands with large numbers of plants in them, sometimes near humans.[2]
They lay eggs in small groups attached to plants just under the surface of the water. The tadpoles can grow to 5 cm long and take two and a half months to start becoming frogs.[5][2]