The skin on its back is mostly brown with irregular black markings and a bumpy texture while its underside is pale to bright yellow and smooth.

[8] The Giant Banjo Frog is endemic to Australia and inhabits the arid region of central New South Wales and northern Victoria.

[11] The Giant Banjo Frog spends the majority of its time underground and tends to only emerge after rain to feed and lay eggs.

[9] The Giant Banjo Frog is dissimilar to many other arid-adapted amphibians in the fact that it spends a large stage of its life-cycle in aquatic environments.

[11] For individuals to survive during periods of extended drought, the Giant Banjo Frog has adapted stronger and shovel-shaped limbs to increase its burrowing ability.

The Giant Banjo Frog is a non-cocoon forming species and therefore tends to dig deeper during periods of drought to maintain adequate moisture.

[6] Eggs are spawned in a nest made up of a large foamy mass situated on the surface of the static or slow flowing water in flooded burrows, ponds, dams or stream pools.

This relationship has the potential to impact this type of habitat for Giant Banjo Frogs due to predation by foxes of the Malleefowl, which is listed as a vulnerable species under the EPBC Act 1999.

[15] The Murray-Darling Basin is an ecological hotspot for not only the Giant Banjo Frog but many other native plants, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals.