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    Yep..That's it as far as I know. We are not able to keep NZ native Frogs.( Hochstetter's frog, Archey's frog, Hamilton's frog, Maud Island frog)
    New Zealand's native frogs have several distinctive features, which make them very different from other frogs.
    They have no external eardrum.
    They have round (not slit) eyes.
    They don't croak regularly like most frogs.
    They don't have a tadpole stage. The embryo develops inside an egg, and then hatches as an almost fully-formed frog. The young of most species are cared for by their parents - for example, the male Archey's frog may carry his young offspring around on his back.

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    No tadpole? really?

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    Yeah, there are a few species where the tadpole develops in the eggs and it hatches out as a miniature version of it's parents. The now extinct gastric-brooding frogs did this and they took it one step further, by incubating the tadpoles/froglets in their stomachs.
    I am now working on an article about a toad from Tanzania the gives live birth to fully formed toadlets.

    Also there are other frogs that lack tympanums, all the toads of the genus Atelopus lack these.

    I am pretty sure mantellas and poison dart frogs also have round pupils.

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    Whoa that breeding would probably easy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Highum View Post
    Whoa that breeding would probably easy.
    What breeding would be easy?

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