Spotting

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you are welcome Joan.You do have a good set of pictures

Yep. You helped me a lot Ashley and Hema. I knew nothing about him when I posted this—not even enough for a productive Google search. Now I know about several different frogs and toads, and I can sex them. It’s been an education. Thanks.

It is Joan, that's what I said it my previous comment (Lithobates got moved back to Rana)

And I wouldn't say rare, Hema, but it is uncommon for them to be blue. Occurs naturally though

I think it’s a male green frog—lithobates clamitans. It has ridges on either side of its back.

https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/63... you check to see if this is tree frog or bullfrog

So Ashley,is it rare?

This is a male green frog (Rana clamitans), a naturally occurring blue morph. It happens uncommonly with the true frogs (Ranidae), but I see it most commonly with this species

Joan,I found it in a pond where people release all their pets .So it was more of an assumption on my part. Your information might be more valid since you read it. If that is the case then we both saw something very rare It is like seeing a meteor! Some of the research tells blue bullfrogs are about one in a million. I am unsure of exact statistics but am certain the frog is "exceptionally rare."

Thanks Hema. It’s odd that the pet trade features them—I read that a naturalist at Cornell tried to mate blue frogs but they all came out green.

https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/63...
Something similar.Picture not as good as yours!

This is a color morph bull frog. The pet trade also has these .At one point I was searching for a naturally occurring color morph in Mt Diablo ,which was rare. I found one in the local pond where people usually release their pets.

Thanks! The story is about blue leopard frogs. I don’t think mine is a leopard frog, but the same mutation is at work. Blue frogs fail to develop yellow pigment—yellow and blue pigments make frogs green—for normal coloration.

I stumbled across this article...but am not being allowed access to it...sounds interesting and it is about a rare blue aberration too....

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/region...