Endangered
Eungella torrent frog
Taudactylus eungellensis
The Eungella torrent frog or Eungella day frog is a stream dwelling frog endemic to Australia.
Appearance
The dorsum ranges from yellowish-tan to dark brown in colour with darker mottling. The belly is smooth and deep yellow.
It is a relatively small frog reaching 35 mm (1.38 in) in length.
Range and habitat
The Eungella torrent frog or Eungella day frog is a stream dwelling frog endemic to Australia. It is restricted to ranges west of Mackay in mid-eastern Queensland.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Breeding may occur all year round, but is most intense from November to December. It is suspected that these movements are a form of courtship.
In crisis
It is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List, and as "Endangered" under Queensland's Nature Conservation (Animals) Regulation (2020).
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Eungella torrent frog is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Eungella torrent frog, Wikidata item Q3015688. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
