AUSTRALIA
October 2016
4 of 4
AUSTRALIA
October 2016
4 of 4
Nighttime we would also go looking and listening for frogs. I think we can all agree that this one looks exactly
like its local name.
The granite slabs by the stream are dotted with golden males calling and courting the larger brown females.
These were the largest skinks we saw. Hard to tell without anything for scale, but think of an old-fashioned
flashlight with two D-batteries.
When the folks camping next door heard us talking about snakes, they called us over to take a look at this visitor
crawling through their campsite. Like most Aussie snakes, it’s an elapid.
Did I mention that Australia has skinks?
These well-fed Water Dragons were happily at home by ponds in the Brisbane Botanical Gardens.
Back in forest, skinks and more skinks.
As we’re hiking, Steve points to a spot and comments about it being just the right place for a Marsh Snake. And
as he’s speaking, suddenly he realizes that there, in fact, is a Marsh Snake. Another one of those, “they look so
harmless” elapids.
Similar to the Granite Belt Leafed-tails, but this variety is found in the forest on trees. Last herp of the trip, a very
nice finishing touch.
Pobblebonk
aka Eastern Banjo Frog
Limnodynastes dumerilii
Eastern Stoney Creek Frog
Litoria wilcoxii
Smooth Toadlet Frog
Uperoleia laevigata
Clicking Froglet
Crinia signifera
Eastern Sedge Frog
Litoria fallax
Ornate Burrowing Frog
Platyplectrum ornatum
Emerald-spotted Tree Frog
Litoria peronii
Cunningham's Skink
Egernia cunninghami
Eastern Crevice Skink
Egernia mcpheei
Yellow-faced Whip Snake
Demansia psammophis
Red-throated Skink
Acritoscincus platynotus
Challenger’s Shade Skink
Saproscincus challengeri
Beech Skink
Harrisoniascincus zia
Garden Skink
Lampropholis delicata
Murray’s Skink
Karma murrayi
Marsh Snake
Hemiaspis signata
Southern Leaf-tailed Gecko
Saltuarius swaini
