The frog is one of three new Australian species the researchers have described in the past year. The tiny frog population is confined to an area of about 2,000 hectares on Wollumbin mountain. “There are only four of the 4,000 species worldwide that have male parental care where the male carries its developing tadpoles.” “The hip pocket frog is not only unique for its amazing breeding biology among Australian frogs, but it is also unique among frogs of the world,” said the University of Newcastle’s Michael Mahony, one of the researchers who discovered the frog. The male frogs carry developing tadpoles in pouches on their sides of their bodies before little frogs emerge two to three months later. The frogs are commonly referred to as pouched or hip pocket frogs, or sometimes the marsupial frog.
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