Hi Anna,

I've checked through the Museum research specimen database and we do not have any records of Giant Burrowing frogs from as far west as Bathurst - the most western record is Mt Victoria. The species you have seen could be a an Eastern Banjo Frog (Limnodynastes dumerilii) which is similar in size and appearance and occurs throughout the western slopes and adjscent areas of the western plains in NSW.  A good photo of this species appears in the book 'Tadpoles of Southeastern Australia' by Marion Anstis (2002).

We have an active helioprous population here in the bush at O'Connell which is close to Bathurst. I don't believe populations of this species have been recorded this far west? Anna