Endangered
Fleay's barred frog
Mixophyes fleayi
Fleay's barred frog is a frog in the family Myobatrachidae (order Anura) — Mixophyes fleayi, recorded as Endangered and tied to Australia.
Appearance
It is light brown with darker blotches and is finely granular on the dorsal surface. There is an irregular darker brown band starting behind the eyes and continuing down the back. The flanks have scattered dark spots and blotches.
Fleay's barred frog is a moderately large species of frog, up to 90mm in length.
Range and habitat
This species has a fragmented distribution in wet forests from Conondale Range in Queensland in the north, to Yabbra Scrub in northern New South Wales to the south. The majority of the population occurs in rainforests above 400m, however it is also known from some lowland rainforest sites. It is currently known from Conondale and Main Range, Springbrook and Lamington Plateaux and Mount Barney in Queensland and Border Ranges, Mount Warning, Nightcap Range and Yabbra and Tooloom Scrub in New South Wales.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Eggs are laid in a dug out nest in gravel and leaf litter in shallow flowing water.
In crisis
It is listed as Endangered under both the IUCN Red List and Queensland's Nature Conservation Act 1992.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Fleay's barred 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 Fleay's barred frog, Wikidata item Q2274778. 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.
