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Melanistic (?) Natterjack toad

PostPosted: Fri May 13, 2016 9:14 am
by Alexandre Roux
Good morning everybody,

Last night I was on one of the sites I'm working on looking at amphibians (especially) and I found this little guy:

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Thought you'll be interested ;)

I'm really sorry for handling picture as I didn't take my camera with me so I had troubles taking pictures of it with my phone. The eye was really awesome.

Re: Melanistic (?) Natterjack toad

PostPosted: Fri May 13, 2016 11:11 am
by Jeroen Speybroeck
That's cool! I would have thought it's a bufo.

That eye reminds me of a green toad I've seen on Sicily.

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Re: Melanistic (?) Natterjack toad

PostPosted: Fri May 13, 2016 11:20 pm
by Berislav Horvatic
Aren't the tiny juveniles of Bufo bufo just as "melanistic" as that? See e. g. this one (from the island of Krk - and I have
Mario Schweiger as my eyewitness):

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Actually, THOUSANDS of them were migrating at the moment, and most of them were pretty dark.