Talk:Gastric-brooding frog

Taxonomy Change

If you would like to see my reasoning behind changing the taxonomy for this "family", see User:LiquidGhoul/Ground-dwelling frog taxonomy (haven't created it yet, check back soon). The change is for many species, and if you would like to discuss it I would rather keep it in the one place. Thanks. --liquidGhoul 13:06, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Cited Refs

Why are they doubling up? -- Froggydarb ^croak 23:52, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Is it fixed now? Gimmetrow 01:40, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

It's back!

See this. --78.0.233.131 (talk) 07:04, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

On Reproduction

"... it is not clear whether the eggs were laid on the land or in the water, as it was never observed before their extinction" "Most female frogs had around 40 ripe eggs, alsmot double that of the number of juveniles ever found in the stomach. This means one of two things, that the female fails to swallow all the eggs or the first few eggs to be swallowed are digested."

If the egg-laying has never been observed, and only half the number of juveniles are found, how is it known that they lay "around 40 ripe eggs"? At what point were these eggs counted, and where were they at the time? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.153.24.26 (talk) 10:04, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

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Where is link on science articles in section about biology and reproduction. I would like read it. --OJJ (talk) 14:12, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

OJJ, of the two sources in the "Reproduction" section, the first is an Australian government report, freely available at [1]. The other is a book, and we don't have a link for that. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 14:22, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia Assignment Frog #2

This frog is in the extinct category, which I though was interesting. It’s from Australia and went extinct in the 1980s due to human introduction of pathogenic fungi into their environment. What’s really interesting is that at the end of the page, there is a short section that explains that scientists are trying to bring the species back by using non-living tissue samples. I found this really exciting. Some strengths of this entry are that even though the frog species has gone extinct, there is still a pretty large collection of citations and resources. The reproduction section was also a strength of this entry—there is a lot of well-cited information on parental care. Three general categories that this page is missing are diet, defenses and predators. These three categories would provide a lot of insight into where these frogs place in the circle of life. Finally, the talk page of this article has not that many posts BUT it has a comment about new research that actually did manage to reproduce the frogs and bring them back from extinction. I think this is very exciting and I would love to read more about it.

Eylul.horozoglu (talk) 20:51, 22 September 2022 (UTC)