Frog - What type?

[hardcorey007]

Can anyone tell me what type of frog this is? Found in Darwin in the Northern Territory.

 

[FROGGIESrCUTEo_O]

wow.... it looks like an Albino White Lipped?

 

[kandi]

whatever it is it is blending into its surroundings

 

[Nephrurus]

Litoria rothii

 

[hotdog85]

frog

hey is the frog still in sight

 

[Acrochordus]

Roth's Tree Frog (Litoria rothii)

 

[PhilK]

Are they always that colour?

 

[LauraM]

Wow awesome frog, looks like the ones i found in carnarvon.... i hope noone went to use the soap and realised they were holding a frog!!

 

[hardcorey007]

hey is the frog still in sight

Not at the moment. It lives in the showers at work. I noticed it a week ago and it has stayed there for that long. Why's that?

 

[JasonL]

wow.... it looks like an Albino White Lipped?

LOL.... a couple of things you might want to look at, like eye colour and distributions of White lippeds...

 

[JasonL]

Are they always that colour?

No, they can vary to a degree like most frogs.

 

[Vassallo2008]

WOW its Albino

 

[JasonL]

Here's one from North Qld.

 

[DanTheMan]

No, they can vary to a degree like most frogs.

Do they not change colour when active/inactive like L. peroni? peroni look quite similar when inactive.

 

[waruikazi]

Bro you need to keep that frog. It is totally legal to keep frogs from the wild in the NT.

 

[PhilK]

Looks like the white chocolate frogs you get from the corner shop.Yum.

 

[eipper]

Litoria rothi like L. peroni do have a marked shift from Day to Night Colours.

Many rothi are almost white at night (especially when on a light background like a soap dish) and usually revert to more crptic mottled brown during the day. However some frogs will stay light and others mottled for most of the time regardless.

Cheers,
Scott

 

[Acrochordus]

Looks like the white chocolate frogs you get from the corner shop.Yum.

It does to, Thanks Tim.

 

[DanTheMan]

Litoria rothi like L. peroni do have a marked shift from Day to Night Colours.

Many rothi are almost white at night (especially when on a light background like a soap dish) and usually revert to more crptic mottled brown during the day. However some frogs will stay light and others mottled for most of the time regardless.

Cheers,
Scott

Oh right, I though it was the other way around, as all the L. peroni I see at night are dark and mottled and at day they're really pale, must be the surroundings.

 

[hardcorey007]

Oh right, I though it was the other way around, as all the L. peroni I see at night are dark and mottled and at day they're really pale, must be the surroundings.

Dan, That's sounds more correct because this photo was take at the middle of the day when the frog was bathed in natural sunlight.