Favourite Frog & Toad photos

These are some of my favourite frog and toad photos (all photographed by me).
  1. Green Poison Arrow/Dart Frog, Dendrobates auratus 
San Antonio Zoo
  2. Yellow Banded Dart Frog - Dendrobates leucomelas  
French Guyana Broad Banded Race 
One of Mike Khadavi's Frogs
  3. Eastern Spadefoot Toad - Scaphiopus holbrookii 
Photographed in Alabama on May 8th 2010
  4. Dendrobates / Ranitomeya fantastica 
"Copper-head" 
Photo taken at Brooklyn Dart Frogs, NYC
  5. Golden Poison Dart Frog - Phyllobates terribilis - "Yellow" race 
3.5 months out of the water, about 3 cm long (just over an inch) 
Adult colouration...
  6. Reinwardt's Flying Frog - Rhacophorus reinwardtii 
Kurt's male, photographed at his house
  7. Phyllobates bicolor 
Looks like the yellow race of the Golden Poison Dart Frog, P. terribilis, but it's a smaller species with a slightly different...
  8. Dendrobates tinctorius "Azureus"
  9. Golden Poison Dart Frog - Phyllobates terribilis - "Mint" race
  10. Golden Poison Dart Frog - Phyllobates terribilis - "Yellow" race 
1 month out of the water, about 2 cm long 
Adult colouration takes a few months to...
  11. Reticulated Glass Frog - Hyalinobatrachium valerioi 
Black Jungle, MA, USA 
Thanks to Richard and Mike at BJ for allowing me to take this photo, and...
  12. Red Eyed Tree Frog - Agalychnis callidryas 
One of the products of Kurt's CB efforts with this species.
  13. Reinwardt's Flying Frog - Rhacophorus reinwardtii 
This is Kurt's frog and Kurt's beast mastery frozen for your viewing pleasure.
  14. Southwestern Woodhouse's Toad - Bufo woodhousii australis 
From El Paso County, Texas, USA 
A large, colourful and very powerful jumping subspecies...
  15. Plains Spadefoot Toad - Spea bombifrons 
Found in Northern Oklahoma the morning of Tuesday August 18th 2009
  16. Plains Spadefoot Toad - Spea bombifrons 
Photo shows the "spade" 
Found in Northern Oklahoma the morning of Tuesday August 18th 2009
  17. Borneo-Eared Frog (Polypedates otilophus)
  18. Mexican Dumpy Frog - Pachymedusa dacnicolor
  19. Southern Leopard Frog - Rana sphenocephala (aka Lithobates sphenocephala)
  20. Rio Grande Leopard Frog - Rana berlandieri 
San Antonio Zoo breeds this species
  21. Texas Toad - Bufo speciosus 
This male was found crossing a country road in North Texas, USA, the night of July 30th 2009 after 3 inches of rain fell...
  22. Great Plains Narrowmouth Toad - Gastrophryne olivacea 
A native of the southern Great Plains of North America, this toad is a distant relative of the...
  23. Female Texas Toad - Bufo speciosus
  24. Canyon Treefrog - Hyla arenicolor - male  
This tree frog is found in arid regions of the south western United States
  25. Eastern Cricket Frog - Acris crepitans
  26. African Bullfrog - Pyxicephalus adspersus 
Showing its Odontoids (teeth-like projections) 
A bite from these can be very deep and painful.  Note the...
  27. White's Dumpy Treefrog - Litoria caerulea 
Laura Raulston's Frog (thanks to Laura for letting me photograph your frog!)
  28. Gulf Coast Toad - Bufo nebulifer (formerly Bufo valliceps, now a separate species) 
Male calling in East Texas, USA
  29. East Texas Toad - Bufo woodhousii velatus
  30. Red Spotted Toad (male) - Bufo punctatus 
North Texas, March 2009
  31. Panamanian Golden Frog/Toad, Atelopus zeteki 
This species is critically endangered and is the current poster child of the chytrid fungus/bd epidemic
  32. Lowveld African Bullfrog / Dwarf African Bullfrog Pyxicephalus edulis
  33. Mantella betsileo 
From the island of Madagascar
  34. Puerto Rican Crested Toad (Bufo lemur) 
This toad is on the brink of extinction in the wild 
Also known as Peltophryne lemur
  35. Western Green Toad (Bufo debilis insidor) 
Also known as Anaxyrus debilis insidor 
Note the net-like pattern
  36. Texas Toad (Bufo speciosus)
  37. Dyeing Poison Arrow/Dart Frog 
Dendrobates tinctorius
  38. Vietnamese Mossy (Theloderma corticale) 
Cryptic camouflage
  39. Golden Mantella - Mantella aurantiaca 
This beautiful little frog and its genus are found only on the island of Madagascar
  40. Male African Bullfrog - Pyxicephalus adspersus - somewhere above 8 inches / 20 cm
  41. Couch's Spadefoot Toad - Scaphiopus couchii
  42. Hyla plicata 
Mexican Treefrog found around Mexico City 
Ridged Treefrog
  43. Cane or Marine Toad - Bufo marinus 
Quite a handful!
  44. Panamanian Golden Frog - Atelopus zeteki 
Critically endangered in its native range of southern Central America.  This frog is one of the poster...
  45. Dendrobates galactonotus
  46. African Bullfrog - Pyxicephalus adspersus - showing how sticky its tongue is 
This shot was taken at 1/200th of a second. Note the tongue sticks to...
  47. African Bullfrog - Pyxicephalus adspersus - attacking a Super Mealworm 
This shot was taken at 1/200th of a second.  Note the forked tongue
  48. Eastern Gray Treefrog, Hyla versicolor 
Female
  49. Eastern Gray Treefrog, Hyla versicolor 
Advanced tadpole
  50. Eastern Gray Treefrog, Hyla versicolor 
Young tadpole
  51. Eastern Gray Treefrog, Hyla versicolor 
Preblastula eggs
  52. Woodhouse's Toad, Bufo woodhousii woodhousii 
Male calling
  53. Great Plains Toad, Bufo cognatus 
Male calling
  54. American Green Treefrog, Hyla cinerea 
Male calling
  55. Eastern Gray Treefrog, Hyla versicolor 
Male calling
  56. Gray Treefrog froglet, Hyla versicolor
  57. Dwarf American Toad, Bufo americanus charlesmithi 
Male calling
  58. Dwarf American Toad, Bufo americanus charlesmithi 
Pair in amplexus
  59. Cajun Chorus Frog, Pseudacris fouquettei 
Ouachita Mountains, Oklahoma
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