Animal Species:Brown Toadlet
The Brown Toadlet is the most widespread of its group (genus Pseudophryne), occurring throughout southern Australia.
The Brown Toadlet is found in south-eastern Australia.
The Brown Toadlet lives in forests, heathlands and grasslands where it can be heard calling throughout the year.
The male Brown Toadlets call with a grating 'ark' or squelching sound from burrows made in damp soil or from under rocks or within grass clumps.
Brown Toadlet eggs are usually laid in the burrow or in damp leaf mould and are larger and fewer in number than eggs from most frogs that breed in water. When they are fully developed, eggs hatch with the first heavy rainfall. This washes the eggs out of the burrow and into a creek or pond where the tadpoles continue their development.
This species, as well as its relatives like the Red Crowned Toadlet (P. australis), and also the Corroboree Frog (P. corroboree), are in decline for reasons we don't fully understand.