About Litoria fallax (Peters, 1880)
Species Classification
Litoria fallax is a small species of frog.
Adult Size
Fully grown females reach a maximum size of 25–30 mm, while fully grown males only reach 20 mm.
Color Variability
The frog's colour is variable, changing based on temperature and the colour of its surrounding environment.
Dorsal Coloration
Its dorsal colour ranges from fawn to light green, and black flecks may occasionally appear on its back.
Facial Markings
A white line starts under the eye and connects to the frog's white belly.
A brown line starts at the nostril, runs across the eye, and continues between the dorsal green or fawn body section and the ventral white body section.
Toe Structure
This species' toe discs are only slightly larger than the toes themselves, and the toes are 75% webbed.
Thigh Coloration
Some individuals have an orange posterior thigh.
Tadpole Size
The tadpoles of this species are larger than the adult frogs, reaching 30 mm in size.
Habitat Range
This frog is associated with a very wide range of habitats, including coastal swamps, lagoons, dams, ditches, and garden ponds, and occurs across forest, heathland, wallum country, and cleared farmland.
Microhabitat
It lives in reeds and similar aquatic plants both near and far from water, and often inhabits banana trees in northern Australia.
Accidental Dispersal
Individuals are sometimes transported across Australia along with shipped bananas.
Non-native Occurrence
This species is well known in Australia for appearing as "lost frogs" that turn up in fruit shops well outside their native range.
