Channel Country
Location: North-western New South Wales, north-east corner South Australia, central to western Queensland and eastern Northern Territory.
Size: 883,181 square kilometres.
Climate: Arid, riverine.
Geology/soils: Low hills and undulating plains on cretaceous and cainozoic sediments; small areas of sand plains; and undulating downs on shales and limestones. Grey and brown cracking clays red earths and lithosols.
Dominate vegetation types: Forbfields and Mitchell grass downs. Braided river systems of coolibah Eucalyptus coolibah woodlands, lignum/saltbush Muehlenbeckia sp. and Chenopodium sp., Shrublands Astrebla spp. Grasslands, shrublands and Acacia low woodlands.
Frogs found in this bioregion
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Species: Crinia deserticola
Family: Myobatrachidae
Common names: Chirping Froglet; Desert Froglet -
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Species: Cyclorana alboguttata
Family: Hylidae
Common names: Greenstripe Frog; Striped Burrowing Frog -
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Species: Cyclorana australis
Family: Hylidae
Common names: Northern Snapping Frog; Giant Frog -
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Species: Cyclorana brevipes
Family: Hylidae
Common names: Superb Collared Frog; Short-footed Frog -
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Species: Cyclorana cultripes
Family: Hylidae
Common names: Grassland Collared Frog; Desert Collared Frog; Knife-footed Frog -
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Species: Cyclorana maculosa
Family: Hylidae
Common names: Spotted Collared Frog; Daly Waters Frog -
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Species: Cyclorana maini
Family: Hylidae
Common names: Western Collared Frog; Main's Frog -
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Species: Cyclorana novaehollandiae
Family: Hylidae
Common names: Eastern Snapping Frog; New Holland Frog -
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Species: Cyclorana platycephala
Family: Hylidae
Common name: Water-holding Frog -
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Species: Cyclorana verrucosa
Family: Hylidae
Common names: Rough Collared Frog; Rough Frog -
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Species: Limnodynastes fletcheri
Family: Myobatrachidae
Common names: Barking Frog; Long-thumbed Frog -
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Species: Limnodynastes ornatus
Family: Myobatrachidae
Common name: Ornate Burrowing Frog -
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Species: Limnodynastes spenceri
Family: Myobatrachidae
Common names: Desert Burrowing Frog; Spencer's Burrowing Frog; Spencer's Frog -
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Species: Limnodynastes tasmaniensis
Family: Myobatrachidae
Common names: Spotted Grass Frog; Spotted Marshfrog -
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Species: Litoria caerulea
Family: Hylidae
Common name: Common Green Tree Frog -
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Species: Litoria electrica
Family: Hylidae
Common names: Buzzing Treefrog; Electric Tree Frog -
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Species: Litoria inermis
Family: Hylidae
Common names: Bumpy Rocketfrog; Floodplain Frog; Peter's Frog -
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Species: Litoria latopalmata
Family: Hylidae
Common names: Broad Palmed Rocketfrog; Gunther's Frog -
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Species: Litoria peronii
Family: Hylidae
Common names: Emerald Spotted Treefrog; Peron's Tree Frog -
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Species: Litoria rubella
Family: Hylidae
Common names: Ruddy Treefrog; Red Tree Frog; Desert Tree Frog