''Assa'' is a genus of

frogs A frog is any member of a diverse and largely semiaquatic group of short-bodied, tailless amphibian vertebrates composing the order Anura (coming from the Ancient Greek , literally 'without tail'). Frog species with rough skin texture due to ...

in the family

Myobatrachidae Myobatrachidae, commonly known as Australian ground frogs or Australian water frogs, is a family of frogs found in Australia and New Guinea. Members of this family vary greatly in size, from species less than long, to the second-largest frog in ...

. These frogs are

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to a few parts of eastern Australia. Both species are found on a few mountains in

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and

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. For a significant portion of time, the only species in this genus was the

pouched frog The pouched frog (''Assa darlingtoni''), or hip pocket frog, is a small, terrestrial frog found in rainforests in mountain areas of south-eastern Queensland and northern New South Wales, Australia. It is one of two species within the genus '' As ...

(''A. darlingtoni''). However, a second species, ''A. wollumbin'', was described in 2021 following a rangewide genetic survey of ''A. darlingtoni''. Both species are notable in that the males have subcutaneous pouches on their hips in which they carry their tadpoles until they metamorphosize.

Species

References

Taxa named by Michael J. Tyler Myobatrachidae Amphibian genera Amphibians of Australia Endemic fauna of Australia {{Myobatrachidae-stub