Observations on the Calling Behaviour of the Jervis Bay Tree FrogLitoria jervisiensis

Abstract

In coastal New South Wales most frog species are observed calling and breeding in the warmer months of the year. One exception to this is the Jervis Bay Tree Frog Litoria jervisiensis, which displays a preference for calling and breeding in the cooler months of the year. There are some discrepancies in the published literature on this species, in part due to past taxonomic confusion and some present difficulties in identifying members of the Litoria ewingi species-group. At one site on the Kurnell Peninsula near the geographic centre of this species range, surveys conducted from [2008][2009] revealed that the core period for calling for L. jervisiensis was April to July. Opportunistic observations of territorial behaviour and dynamic sexual dichromatism were also recorded.

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“…37 left). These waterbodies have since been exploited by frogs and waterbirds (Payne 2014;Mo and Waterhouse 2016). We became aware that this site supports Jervis Bay Treefrogs (Litoria jervisiensis) a few years earlier from a scientific paper published in Australian Zoologist (Payne 2014).…”

“…These waterbodies have since been exploited by frogs and waterbirds (Payne 2014;Mo and Waterhouse 2016). We became aware that this site supports Jervis Bay Treefrogs (Litoria jervisiensis) a few years earlier from a scientific paper published in Australian Zoologist (Payne 2014). Unfortunately, on this visit, heavy rainfall had caused water levels to rise, inundating the previously shallow areas into which in the past we had been able to wade and find the frogs.…”