Naracoorte-Yorke-Eyre
Location: Southern South Australia.
Size: 113,318 square kilometres.
Climate: Temperate.
Geology/soils: Archaean basement rocks and Proterozoic sandstones overlain by undulating to occasionally hilly calcarenite and calcrete plains and areas of aeolian quartz sands well-defined uplands of Cambrian and Late Proterozoic marine sediments. Includes a broad coastal plain of Tertiary and Quaternary sediments. Calcareous earths, duplex soils and calcareous to shallow sands.
Dominate vegetation types: Open eucalypt forests, mallee woodlands, shrublands and heaths.
Threatening processes: Now largely cleared from agriculture and urban development.
Frogs found in this bioregion
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Species: Crinia riparia
Family: Myobatrachidae
Common name: Streambank Froglet -
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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: Geocrinia laevis
Family: Myobatrachidae
Common name: Smooth Frog -
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Species: Limnodynastes dumerilii
Family: Myobatrachidae
Common names: Eastern Banjo Frog; Grey-bellied Pobblebonk; Eastern Pobblebonk; Pobblebonk; Bullfrog -
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Species: Limnodynastes fletcheri
Family: Myobatrachidae
Common names: Barking Frog; Long-thumbed Frog -
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Species: Limnodynastes peronii
Family: Myobatrachidae
Common names: Striped Marshfrog; Brown-striped Frog; Brown Frog -
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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 peronii
Family: Hylidae
Common names: Emerald Spotted Treefrog; Peron's Tree Frog -
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Species: Litoria raniformis
Family: Hylidae
Common names: Growling Grass Frog; Southern Bell Frog; Green or Warty Swamp Frog -
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Species: Neobatrachus pictus
Family: Myobatrachidae
Common names: Painted Frog; Mallee Spadefoot Toad -
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Species: Neobatrachus sudelli
Family: Myobatrachidae
Common names: Meeowing Frog; Sudell's Frog; Eastern Metal-eyed Frog; Common Spadefoot Toad; Painted Burrowing Frog -
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Species: Pseudophryne bibronii
Family: Myobatrachidae
Common name: Bibron's Toadlet -
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Species: Pseudophryne semimarmorata
Family: Myobatrachidae
Common name: Southern Toadlet