Description: The Ornate Burrowing frog is shaped like a golf ball with short stumpy legs and a flat face. The feet have a horny pad on the underside, and all these characteristics together make it ideally designed for digging. It prefers loamy or sandy soil and can disappear underground in as little as 30 seconds in a backwards sliding motion.

Habitat: This frog spends most of its life within 30 cm of the surface of the soil, and may be found in suburbia in a shovel full of soil when turning over the garden, particularly in the cooler months. It does not form a cocoon underground, but rests in a burrow, often for months at a time.