Edulis?

[onedge30]

Alright, second picture above is labeled 'edulis' at Swanees Exotics. Nate, the owner, sent the picture.

He says that he has 'many'. They are $15 each. Fedex is around $35.

http://www.swaneesexotics.com/

He said I could share this pricing with all.

[John]

Those photos in your second post look like edulis to me. That is not the frog in the link you posted.

[onedge30]

Right John. Sorry, I didn't say that, but all three are from different sources.

So are most edulis much darker?

In your book, John, is there a description for obbianus?

[tgampper]

The pictures are edulis. The key indicators for me are the white spot (lighter coloration) in the tympanum and that the distance between the eye and the tympanum is about the same as the diameter of the eye. Coloration is not a good indicator of species, focus on the white spot in tympanum and the distance between the eye and tympanum.

Alan Channing (2001) mentions that the call of edulis sounds like the barking of a small dog, quite different than the "whoop" call of adspersus.

[Kevin1]

Perhaps a natural inter-grade between the two.

[tgampper]

Perhaps a natural inter-grade between the two.

It would be interesting to know if pyxie hybrids are becoming popular. I know the there are quite a few hybrids among horned frogs. Some pyxies that I seen have traits of both adspersus and edulis.

[John]

Given that Pyxicephalus adspersus and P. edulis lay eggs in markedly different fashions, I think hybridization is at least very difficult, if not impossible.

Terry, please inform my ignorance - the frog on the left of the original comparison picture is P. edulis? Then what is the frog in the photos posted by Jeff?