Hi i just got an email in which i was offered an African Bullfrog the problem is that everybody knows we got two subspecies of one specimen that is edulis and adspersus. Due to the fact i'm a newbie i can't sort the problem out with identyfing the frog. I do rely on you so that you could be a sort of help. atached you got some pics of the frog. cheers.
That's a dwarf not a giant! I got one also they are pretty cool.
It is confirmed that it is a dwarf. They are really great frogs! The best way to tell the difference, dwarfs have a bar across the top of their head connecting the eyes, the tympanum (eardrum) has a creamy white spot in the center and the eardrum is located about one eye diameter away from the eye itself. The stripe down the back shows that it is still a juvenile. The stripe will disappear when the frog reaches sexual maturity. I have a couple of dwarfs and really enjoy them.
Terry Gampper
Nebraska Herpetological Society
“If we can discover the meaning in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may understand why it is for us not merely noise but a song of poetry and emotion.”
--- Adrian Forsyth
dwarf... but a very cool frog nun the less. i really want a dwarf
how old do that have to be to have there stripe come off cause mines is older and has a fresh stripe on him?
thats what i thought u da man
I'm $hit at sexing the dwarfs....lol. sorry man!
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Thanks
DW
I agree that the dwarfs retain their stripe, however it is not the case for all populations. Sexing the dwarfs is difficult and the only information I have is from my African amphibian field guides - the breeding male is bright green, while the female is duller and brownish. The male is larger.
Right now the genus Pyxicephalus has 3 species, but I have recently heard from a scientist in South Africa, that they may announce a fourth species! What makes this genus so complicated is that some scientists believe that adspersus and edulis are just subspecies. I received an email from Dr. Charles Parry who actually named the two subspecies as: Pyxicephalus adspersus angusticeps and P. a. edulis. Further DNA studies are needed.
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