Males to 90mm; Females to 113mm.
A large, robust frog with moderate legs.
Fingers with basal webbing and toes three-quarters webbed. Head is rounded with prominent glands.
The tympanum is smooth with a prominent supratympanic fold.
The dorsal surface is smooth, ventral surface strongly granular.
Nuptial pads are brown and slightly raised.
Colour ranges from uniform green to olive brown with or without white dots and blotches.
Throat is green on the jaw margins, the remainder of the ventral surface white.
A lateral row of white dots can be present.
Hidden surfaces of thigh tan or fleshy coloured.
Tympanum green or light brown. Iris golden.
Males call from vegetation and ground around pools from September to March. The mating call is a monotonous low-key 'crawk-crawk-crawk'.
Distress screams are sometimes heard when being attacked by a predator.
Eggs and Tadpole
About 1000-3000, brown pigmented eggs in clear jelly are laid as a raft on top of water.
Fertilised eggs sink to the bottom becoming attached to pond vegetation.
Tadpole maximum size 44mm; lentic tadpole. Eyes are widely spaced, anus dextral, spiracle sinistral. Tooth row formula 2/3 with well developed, elevated border of large papillae on inferior edge of oral disc. Dorsal colour mottled brown with two caudal stripes on the tail, ventral varying from dark to light with aging. Tail pigmentation sparse. Juveniles metamorphose at 15-18mm.
Habitat
Found in all habitats from desert to coastal swamps (including dry vine thickets) but not in dense tropical rainforest. In the dry season may be found under bark, in tree hollows, in and under logs and under rocks.
Distribution
Throughout Queensland; New Guinea and all states except Victoria and Tasmania.
