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Ornate Burrowing Frog
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Ornate Burrowing Frog

Platyplectrum ornatum

The ornate burrowing frog, (Platyplectrum ornatum, formerly Opisthodon ornatus and Limnodynastes ornatus) is a species of ground frog native to Australia. It was moved to the genus Opisthodon in 2006, following a major revision of amphibians, and is now classified in the genus Platyplectrum...

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 66479.