Tanami Toadlet

Uperoleia micromeles Tyler, Davies & Martin 1981

Species Info Card | Updated 1 decade ago

A relatively large (to 4 cm) squat species with a wide snout and very short limbs. The skin is smooth, the toes have only a small amount of webbing and the metatarsal tubercles are large. The colouration is dark brown and the parotoid glands have a light stippling of gold. The belly is white.

Breeding Biology

Nothing known.

Habitat

One specimen recorded from a dune with Triodia and grasses.

Etymology

micromeles means 'short-limbed'.

General

There remains much to be discovered of this rarely-encountered and distinctive species of toadlet.

Tanami desert in WA and NT.

Unknown.