Australian Alps
Location: A series of high elevation plateaus capping the south-eastern highlands and the southern tablelands of New South Wales.
Size: 11,718 square kilometres.
Climate: Temperate, alpine.
Geology/soils: Made up largely of granite and basalt.
Dominate vegetation types: Alpine herbfields, and other timeless communities, snow gum woodlands and montane forests dominated by alpine ash.
Frogs found in this bioregion
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Species: Crinia signifera
Family: Myobatrachidae
Common names: Clicking Froglet; Common Eastern Froglet; Common Froglet; Signifera Froglet -
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Species: Limnodynastes tasmaniensis
Family: Myobatrachidae
Common names: Spotted Grass Frog; Spotted Marshfrog -
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Species: Litoria ewingii
Family: Hylidae
Common name: Brown Tree Frog -
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Species: Litoria spenceri
Family: Hylidae
Common names: Spotted Tree Frog; Spencer's River Tree Frog -
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Species: Litoria verreauxii alpina
Family: Hylidae
Common name: Verreaux's Frog -
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Species: Litoria verreauxii verreauxii
Family: Hylidae
Common names: Whistling Treefrog; Verreaux's Frog -
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Species: Pseudophryne corroboree
Family: Myobatrachidae
Common name: Southern Corroboree Frog -
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Species: Pseudophryne dendyi
Family: Myobatrachidae
Common names: Southern Toadlet; Dendy's Toadlet