''Ranoidea maculosa'', the Daly Waters frog, is a species of

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

in the subfamily Pelodryadinae. It is

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 Australia. Its natural

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s are subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland and intermittent freshwater marshes.

References

Ranoidea (genus) Amphibians of Queensland Amphibians of the Northern Territory Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Amphibians described in 1977 Frogs of Australia Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Pelodryadinae-stub