Southern gastric-brooding frog
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| phylum | Chordata | Southern gastric-brooding frog, (Rheobatrachus silus) is one of two extinct gastric-brooding frogs or platypus frogs (Rheobatrachus), that were a genus of ground-dwelling frogs native to Queensland in eastern Australia. The genus consisted of only two species, both of which became extinct in the mid-1980s. The genus was unique because it contained the only two known frog species that incubated the prejuvenile stages of their offspring in the stomach of the mother.
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| clade | Amphibia | |
| clade | Lissamphibia | |
| order | Anura | |
| family | Myobatrachidae | |
| genus | †Rheobatrachus | |
| species | †R. silus |
