The barred frogs are a group of frogs in the genus Mixophyes. They are the largest of the Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n ground frog

Frog

Frogs are amphibians in the order Anura , formerly referred to as Salientia . Most frogs are characterized by a short body, webbed digits , protruding eyes and the absence of a tail...

s, from the Myobatrachidae family.

The barred frogs are native to the eastern coast of Australia, with one species inhabiting New Guinea

New Guinea

New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...

. They are restricted to rainforest

Rainforest

Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with definitions based on a minimum normal annual rainfall of 1750-2000 mm...

s and wet sclerophyll

Sclerophyll

Sclerophyll is the term for a type of vegetation that has hard leaves and short internodes . The word comes from the Greek sclero and phyllon ....

 forests. They often habit under moist leaf litter, where they hunt small invertebrate

Invertebrate

An invertebrate is an animal without a backbone. The group includes 97% of all animal species – all animals except those in the chordate subphylum Vertebrata .Invertebrates form a paraphyletic group...

s. The males will also call from leaf litter close to a water source. It is suspected that the barred frog tadpoles eat carrion, if available, after both Great Barred Frog

Great Barred Frog

The Great Barred Frog is an Australian ground-dwelling frog of the genus Mixophyes.-Physical description:...

 (Mixophyes fasciolatus) and Fleay's Barred Frog

Fleay's Barred Frog

The Fleay's Barred Frog is a large species of frog restricted to small pockets of rainforest in northern New South Wales and south-eastern Queensland, Australia.-Distribution:...

 (Mixophyes fleayi) tadpoles have both been observed eating carrion.

The genus consists of large frogs, the Giant Barred Frog

Giant Barred Frog

The Giant Barred Frog, Mixophyes iteratus, is a species of barred frogs in Australia. It occurs from south-east Queensland to just south of the Newcastle region in New South Wales...

 is the second largest frog in Australia. All species have visible tympanums, maxillary

Maxilla

The maxilla is a fusion of two bones along the palatal fissure that form the upper jaw. This is similar to the mandible , which is also a fusion of two halves at the mental symphysis. Sometimes The maxilla (plural: maxillae) is a fusion of two bones along the palatal fissure that form the upper...

 and vomerine teeth, powerful legs, and webbed feet.

Species

Common name	Binomial name
Stuttering Frog Stuttering Frog The Stuttering Frog is a large species of frog that inhabits temperate and sub-tropical rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest in Australia.-Distribution:...	Mixophyes balbus
	Mixophyes carbinensis
	Mixophyes coggeri
Great Barred Frog Great Barred Frog The Great Barred Frog is an Australian ground-dwelling frog of the genus Mixophyes.-Physical description:...	Mixophyes fasciolatus
Fleay's Barred Frog Fleay's Barred Frog The Fleay's Barred Frog is a large species of frog restricted to small pockets of rainforest in northern New South Wales and south-eastern Queensland, Australia.-Distribution:...	Mixophyes fleayi
Namosado Barred Frog	Mixophyes hihihorlo
Giant Barred Frog Giant Barred Frog The Giant Barred Frog, Mixophyes iteratus, is a species of barred frogs in Australia. It occurs from south-east Queensland to just south of the Newcastle region in New South Wales...	Mixophyes iteratus
Northern Barred Frog Northern Barred Frog The Northern Barred Frog is a large, ground dwelling frog native to tropical northern Queensland, Australia.-Physical description:...	Mixophyes schevilli