The kind Heleioporus gathers six species S of Grenouille S present in the south of the Australia.
On the six species, five live in the south-west of the Western Australia and the sixth in the south-east of Australia. All the species of this kind are animals of intermediate size to large, alive hidden in the ground to protect itself from predatory and the dessication, with round heads, short bodies, projecting eyes, relatively short legs and fingers with the front legs without palmation. The toes are rather short with an outline of palmation. A characteristic of the kind (except for Heleioporus eyrei and some Heleioporus psammophilus ) is the presence of black bridal spines in the males on the level of the first fingers, incidentally of the second and third. The Pupille S form a vertical slit and the Tympan is generally visible. All the males of this kind call the females since their burrow where the couples will deposit their limed foam eggs. The embryos will develop there until their blossoming. The blossoming occurs when the rain floods the burrow and can make it possible the tétards to continue their development in water. The croakings of all these species are rather similar though they differ in frequency, length, height and of many repetitions.
List species
- Heleioporus albopunctatus Gray, 1841.
- Heleioporus australiacus (Shaw and Nodder, 1795).
- Heleioporus barycragus Lee, 1967.
- Heleioporus eyrei (Gray, 1845).
- Heleioporus inornatus Lee and Main, 1954.
- Heleioporus psammophilus Lee and Main, 1954.
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