Red Forest Frog
The Museum of Oltenia

Red Forest Frog

Unknown artist

CC0 — Public Domain
The Museum of Oltenia

It is a slender frog with a sharp muzzle, oblique frenal region, concave and horizontal pupil. The skin is dorsal and ventral smooth. Colorful: The fund is yellowish-gray, sprinkled with small black spots. He presents a dark color drawing between his shoulders. The hind limbs are striped transversely with brown. In the temporal region has a large spot, cafenie. The abdomen is milky white. The iris is red-golden, with black spots. He leads a terrestrial and diurnal way of life, being aquatic during the breeding season. She is very good jumper, a jump reaching up to 2 m in length. It winters on the bottom of the waters, in the hand. The breeding period begins at the end of March and holds until the end of April and runs at night. Ponta takes place in puddles and consists of a pyriforn conglomerate fixed on a creangă or submerse plant. This species is found in the Red Book of vertebrates from Romania as vulnerable.

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