Assa is a genus of frogs in the family Myobatrachidae. These frogs are endemic to a few parts of eastern Australia.[1]
| Assa | |
|---|---|
| |
| A. darlingtoni | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Myobatrachidae |
| Genus: | Assa Tyler, 1972 |
| Species | |
Both species are found on a few mountains in Queensland and New South Wales. For a significant portion of time, the only species in this genus was the pouched frog (A. darlingtoni). However, a second species, A. wollumbin, was described in 2021 following a rangewide genetic survey of A. darlingtoni. Both species are notable in that the males have subcutaneous pouches on their hips in which they carry their tadpoles until they metamorphosize.[2][3]
Species
edit| Common name | Binomial name |
|---|---|
| Pouched frog, hip-pocket frog, or Australian marsupial frog | Assa darlingtoni (Loveridge, 1933) |
| Wollumbin pouched frog or Mount Wollumbin hip-pocket frog | Assa wollumbin Mahony, Hines, Mahony, Moses, Catalano, Myers, and Donnellan, 2021 |
References
edit- ^ "Assa Tyler, 1972 | Amphibian Species of the World". amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org. Retrieved 2022-08-02.
- ^ Mahony, Michael J.; Hines, Harry B.; Mahony, Stephen V.; Moses, Bede; Catalano, Sarah R.; Myers, Steven; Donnellan, Stephen C. (2021-10-26). "A new hip-pocket frog from mid-eastern Australia (Anura: Myobatrachidae: Assa)". Zootaxa. 5057 (4): 451–486. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5057.4.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 34811197. S2CID 239943400.
- ^ Cutajar, Timothy P.; Portway, Christopher D.; Gillard, Grace L.; Rowley, Jodi J. L. (2022-06-29). "Australian Frog Atlas: species' distribution maps informed by the FrogID dataset". Technical Reports of the Australian Museum (Online). 36: 1–48. doi:10.3853/j.1835-4211.36.2022.1789. ISSN 1835-4211.
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