• Background
• Characteristics

(Photo: FROGWATCH Resource Materials 1990)

The Streambank Froglet is an amazing frog whose tadpoles are adapted to living in fast flowing streams. It is also unique as it lacks a tympanum (a disk-like external ear). Similar to other Crinia species, the Streambank Froglet displays highly variable skin colour and patterns. The froglet's greatest claim to fame is that it is South Australia's only endemic frog it is found in South Australia and nowhere else). Its distribution is restricted to the Flinders and Gammon ranges.

Streambank Froglet distribution map

Size: Males 16-22 mm; Females 19-25 mm.

Habitat: Found beneath rocks and stones on the edge of creeks in the Flinders Ranges.

Breeding: Spawn is laid under rocks along the creek's edge.

Advertisement call: A soft 'kra-a-a-a-a-a-ack' repeated slowly and sounding like a squeaking door.