Ruggero Morimando wrote:Dear Petreanu: smooth snakes and tessellata are very different snakes.
Look carefully on the web at least at 50 pictures of each species.
If you do not see the differences at a glance, you must reason like a computer...
Has the snake smooth or keeled scales?
Has the snake an elongated and pointed head with rather big "bulging" eyes or, on the contrary, a shorter head with a short and thick and stocky neck?
Which colours I see? Which markings?
I hope you agree now your snake is a Coronella austriaca!
Tom Hoogesteger wrote:Yes, the snake is Coronella austriaca and the toad is Bufo viridis. The frog is either Pelophylax ridibundus or esculentus.
Michal Szkudlarek wrote:Tom Hoogesteger wrote:Yes, the snake is Coronella austriaca and the toad is Bufo viridis. The frog is either Pelophylax ridibundus or esculentus.
Peleophylax lessonae is present in Romania too.
Ilian Velikov wrote:Michal Szkudlarek wrote:Tom Hoogesteger wrote:Yes, the snake is Coronella austriaca and the toad is Bufo viridis. The frog is either Pelophylax ridibundus or esculentus.
Peleophylax lessonae is present in Romania too.
That's true but the one from the photo doesn't look like lessonae. It lacks the yellow colour on the flanks and thighs. I'd also go for either ridibundus or esculentus.
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