Spain, and southern France, often found in waterbodies like ponds, reservoirs, and rivers. Known for their vocal, noisy rattling croaks, these green or brown, 35–100 mm frogs are active both day and night, breeding in both natural and artificial aquatic habitats.
Key Facts about the Iberian Green Frog:
Appearance: They are usually shades of green or brown, sometimes blueish, with yellowish lines down their backs and small warts on their skin. They are quite agile and have long hind limbs designed for swimming and jumping.
Vocalization: Only males sing to attract females, often creating loud choruses that sound like rattling, croaks, and groans.
Diet: As opportunistic predators, they feed on insects like Diptera, Coleoptera, and Hymenoptera, but they can also be cannibalistic.
Habitat: While they prefer aquatic environments, they can be found in a wide variety of habitats, including temperate forests, Mediterranean shrubland, and even urban areas.
Reproduction: They reproduce in many types of water bodies, including lakes, rivers, ponds, and even temporary water tanks, often during the spring and summer.
Conservation Status: The species is listed as "Least Concern" by the IUCN, but its populations are decreasing and it is vulnerable to habitat changes and the introduction of exotic predators like the red swamp crawfish.
Iberian Green Frogs can live at altitudes up to 2,400 meters.
They can be identified by a pale, central dorsal stripe dividing their back.
They can be seen during the day but are most vocal in the evening.
They are highly aquatic and will rapidly jump into the water to escape danger.
The Perez's frog (Pelophylax perezi), also known as Iberian waterfrog, Iberian green frog or Coruna frog, is a species of frog in the family Ranidae. It is native to southern France, Portugal, Spain, and has been introduced to the Canary and Balearic Islands, Madeira, the United Kingdom, and the Azores. In the Iberian Peninsula it is widespread and common.
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.
