Mixophyes fleayi - Fleay's Barred Frog

Fleay's Barred Frog is an endangered frog that lives in high altitude rainforests. Though most of their habitat is protected as national parks, this species underwent a severe decline in past decades, likely due to the arrival of a pathogenic chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Of the five species in the genus Mixophyes, four are threatened with extinction.

I found this female late one night along Lamington National Park's Box Forest Circuit, in Southeast Queensland.

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