{"id":566,"date":"2013-09-06T16:34:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T06:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/?p=566"},"modified":"2014-05-15T21:20:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T11:20:32","slug":"showing-some-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/showing-some-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"Showing some leg"},"content":{"rendered":"

I travelled out to Bribie Island Tuesday night gone, not to engage in any sus activity suggested by this post title, but to join several other froggers on their three-monthly wallum frog monitoring (as previously posted about). Temperature of both water and air was a comfortable 19 degrees Celsius and light winds kept mosquitoes away. Because you’re probs over wallum sedgefrog photos, I’ve some photos of their identification aspects only.<\/p>\n

In disturbed wallum ecosystems, often (but not only) beside urbanisation, there will be an overlap of ‘specialist’ wallum frogs and ‘generalist’ frog species, such as the Wallum sedgefrog (L. olongburensis<\/i>) and Eastern sedgefrog (Litoria fallax<\/i>), respectively. The two species are quite similar to each other, requiring a closer look when they co-occur. Among several feature differences between the two are the colours hidden between their legs and groin, as shown below.<\/p>\n

\"Eastern<\/a>
Eastern sedgefrog (Litoria fallax<\/i>) leg\/thigh\/groin region. Notice the single orange colour.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Wallum<\/a>
Wallum sedgefrog (Litoria olongburensis<\/i>) leg\/thigh\/groin region. Notice the blue, purple and orange colours present. Their vibrancy will vary but this is a sure way to tell.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These frogs are not in any pain being held like this but I don’t encourage handling them yourself. I work by the ‘look but don’t touch’ policy more often than not.<\/p>\n

Alternative ID characteristics include a sharper snout on the wallum sedgefrogs and often longer and slender body. They also have a raised white ‘stripe’ that runs along their flanks (side of body).<\/p>\n

On another note, I will be heading back out to the Conondales one year after my last visit (shocking, I know) and I’m looking forward to seeing stream frogs again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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