Gastric Brooding Frog

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Gastric-brooding Frog - Cause of Extinction
... Extinction risk from global warming and Chytridiomycosis The cause for the gastric-brooding frogs' extinction is unknown but habitat loss/degradation, pollution, pathogens, parasites and over ... Populations of Southern Gastric-brooding Frogs were present in logged catchments between 1972 and 1979 ... The effects of such logging activities upon Southern Gastric-brooding Frogs was not investigated but the species did continue to inhabit streams in the logged catchments ...
Northern Gastric-brooding Frog (R. Vitellinus) - Ecology and Behaviour
... The Northern Gastric-brooding Frog was only recorded in pristine rainforests where the only form of human disturbance was poorly defined walking tracks ... As with the Southern Gastric-brooding Frog, the Northern Gastric-brooding Frog was also a largely aquatic species ... The water in these streams was cool and clear, and the frogs hid away beneath or between boulders in the current or in backwaters ...

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