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Perez's Frog

Pelophylax perezi

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Field Notes

Description:

Perez's Frog (Pelophylax perezi) is a species of frog in the Ranidae family. It is found in southern France, Portugal, Spain, and two sites in the United Kingdom; in Spain it is very abundant, as evidenced by its Spanish name rana común ("common frog").
Its natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, sandy shores, arable land, and urban areas. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN.

Notes:

Spotted in river Homem félinhos beach

Species ID Suggestions

Perez's Frog

Pelophylax perezi

Marsh Frog

Pelophylax ridibundus

Comments (8)

Jemma thanks ,you are allways nice to me :-) This one haved a amazing metalic green,they are in great shape,in félinhos i found this year all the species i saw last year,but in much more numbers,with douzens of young jumpimg all arround :-)
Thanks Marta,i presume that too :-) i have to search furder to see if i found any info on the reason of the name
The name is very funny! I am sure there must be a story behind it! :-)

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