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Perez's Frog,Rã-verde

Pelophylax perezi

Description:

Adults: An average sized frog, quite svelte, their snout is rounded. Their skin is ripely The dorsolateral folds are very visible. Their hind feet webbing is average, they lack paratoid glands and their pupils are horizontal. They have a pair of external vocal sacs.

Habitat:

Perez's Frog (Pelophylax perezi) is a species of frog in the Ranidae family. It is found in southern France, Portugal, Spain, and two sites in the United Kingdom; in Spain it is very abundant, as evidenced by its Spanish name rana común ("common frog") ts natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, sandy shores, arable land, and urban areas. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN.

Notes:

spotted in my backyard,it's was about 2cm,maybee a juvenil

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Perez's Frog / Rã-verde
Pelophylax perezi / Rana perezi


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4 Comments

Thanks Gonçalo for one more ID

thanks any way David :)

David46
David46 11 years ago

Never mind Green Frogs don't live in Europe. Sorry

David46
David46 11 years ago

It might be a Green Frog Rana clamitans but I'm not sure. Check this source out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rana_clamit... and
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/115.... Some of the pics on Wikipedia look like your frog

Braga, Portugal

Spotted on Nov 8, 2012
Submitted on Nov 9, 2012

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