Platyplectrum ornatum (Ornate Burrowing Frog)

IUCN Status: Least Concern.

As their common name suggests, this species excavate a burrow with their read legs and disappear most of the time. However after heavy rain (like the storms we had yesterday) they come to the surface. That make's finding them when spotlighting this individual right near our house relatively easy.

Ornatum max out at about 5cm length, but this individual was about 3cm. Their colouration varies dramatically from individual to individual, which will be obvious when I upload photos of another individual I shot when I was just starting out with frogs. Further, when exposed to room lighting for a few minutes while I looked in my field guide, this individual change from the nice brown patterning evident in this photo, to more or less a solid, featureless, very dark brown.