Frog Species List - full text accessible version

Look closely

Examine the pages of this book to discover many amazing wetlands animals and plants from the South-West of Western Australia. We haven’t listed all of the plants and animals in the book, so you’ll have to put on your detective hat and find out who the others are.

Ages Animals Plants
2-3 Motorbike Frog
Slender Tree Frog
Western Blue-spot Goby
Water Mite
Paper Bark Tree
Jarrah Tree
Pithy Sword Sedge
4-5 Ticking Frog
Clicking Froglet
Western Swamp Tortoise
Musk Duck
Pygmy Perch
Smooth Marron
Australian Painted Lady
Marsh Club Rush
Woollybush
Prickly Moses
Scaly Rustgill
6-7 Orange-Bellied Frog
Hooting Frog
Western Swamp Skink
Pied Cormorant
Sacred Kingfisher
Boobook
Tree Martin
Feather Horn Beetle
Hoverfly
Milkmaids
Swamp Sheoak
8-9 Quacking Frog
Squelching Frog
Southern Brown Bandicoot
Tiger Snake
Great Egret
Black-shouldered Kite
Yelloweye Mullet
Freshwater Mussel
Fairy Shrimp
Christmas Spider
Water Boatman
Salt Marsh Rush
10-11 Moaning Frog
Microbat
Spotted Nightjar
Australasian Shoveler
Black Swan
Reed Warbler
Night Heron
Shelduck
Tawny Frogmouth
Jewel Beetle
Black Wishbone Spider
Cowslip Orchid
Water Pennywort*
12-13 Western Banjo Frog
Moaning Frog
Woma Python
Bobtail
Wolf Spider
Black Swan
Purple Swamphen
Dragonfly
 
14-15 Laughing Kookaburra*
Rainbow Lorikeet*
Domestic Cat*
Brass Buttons*
Zamia Palm
Drooping Leucopogon

The species marked with an asterisk (*) don’t belong in our wetlands, so keep an eye out for them too.