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Frog for ID from Cyprus (1 Viewer)
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Pyrrhosoma
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I think its a Marsh Frog
ColinD
Well-known member
Thanks. Actually to answer my own question, I've just come across a web site here which states that there are only three species of amphibian in Cyprus, green toad, tree frog and the Cyprus Marsh Frog Pelophylax bedriagae.
This is obviously not the first two, so it must be Cyprus marsh frog which the site says is endemic. The only confusion is that a quick google of Pelophylax bedriagae reveals that it also has the name Levant water frog which occurs across southern Turkey and the eastern Mediterranean, therefore not endemic to Cyprus.
Pyrrhosoma
Active member
This makes sense as it didn't quite look right for a typical Marsh Frog. An endemic race or subspecies perhaps Colin?
It is the endemic species Pelophylax cypriensis.
These frogs were previously regarded as P. bedriagae but were in 2012 recognized as a separate, previously unnamed, species - see http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/zoos.201200021/abstract
These frogs were previously regarded as P. bedriagae but were in 2012 recognized as a separate, previously unnamed, species - see http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/zoos.201200021/abstract
ColinD
Well-known member
Thanks a lot, that explains things nicely!
