Hi,
Off to Corfu next week, could someone please advise me are both Epirus Water Frog, (Pelophylax epeiroticus) and Balkan Frog (Pelophylax kurtmuelleri) present on the island? There seems to be some confusion (in my mind anyway).
Thanks.
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These species hybridise and are hard to identify (BUTTLE1995). This author considers R. epeirotica
being the rarer of the two. MERTENS (1961a)states that R. ridibunda is very common on the island, and can be found in brackish and saline waters
Distribution in Greece:East Macedonia, Thrace.
The name Rana balcanica is occasionally used, but this is a junior synonym of Pelophylax kurtmuelleri (Dubois and Ohler 1995). P.-A. Crochet (pers. comm.) mentions that there is no genetic divergence between Pelophylax kurtmuelleri and P. ridibundus, and so the status of this species is doubtful (Crochet and Dubois 2004).
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