fire-bellied toads
bombinatoridae latin

Oriental fire-bellied toads can be trained to accept food in this manner.

Oriental fire-bellied toads are the most easily recognizable species of Bombina.

Fire-bellied Toads are usually fed live food.

In captivity, oriental fire-bellied toads have lived for more than a dozen years, with 15 years being common.

They are commonly darker than Fire-bellied toads from Asia.

Bombinatoridae or Fire-bellied toads is a family of toads.

Fire-bellied toads are active both day and night, and are vertebrae, meaning having a backbone.

Because of their mild toxicity, oriental fire-bellied toads should not be kept with most other types of frog or amphibian.

Oriental fire-bellied toads should be kept in water, with some kind of land or island which allows them to periodically climb out of the water.

The Bombinatoridae are often referred to as fire-bellied toads because of their brightly colored ventral sides, which show they are highly toxic.

They should not be fed mealworms, as these larva possess hard shells which fire-bellied toads have a hard time digesting or passing.

Color and body variations will be described for each of the other 3 species commonly sold as or mistaken for Oriental Fire-Bellied Toads.

More frequently, after the first hour, and in far greater numbers, troops of massive fire-bellied toads also made the passage; they too pressed on earnestly to the south-west.

The fire-bellied toads Bombina bombina and Bombina variegata are similar in forming hybrids.

The deep bass voices of marsh and edible frogs developed the tone of the amphibian choir, while fire-bellied toads added their bonging, bell-like melody.

Of special interest and goal of protection are those animals whose habitats are endangered elsewhere in Germany like beavers, otters, pond tortoises and fire-bellied toads.

Fire-Bellied toads have a bright lime green dorsal traversed by black spots, and orange to bright red bellies with black bars and stripes.

Frogs are the most commonly taken amphibians; in the Voronezh region, they frequently eat fire-bellied toads, while European spadefoot toads are usually taken in Ukraine.

Fire-bellied Toads have a sensitivity to chlorine and chloramine - tap water should be treated or allowed to stand for several days, to allow chlorine to dissipate, before adding it to their environment.

The Yellow-Bellied Toad (Bombina variegata) belongs to the order of Anura, the archaeobatrachial family of Bombinatoridae, and to the genus of fire-bellied toads.

Captive fire-bellied toads usually live to be around 12 years old, and there are several cases reported by owners of fire-bellied toads attaining ages up to 15 years.

Because members of the Bombina genus have short, round tongues that cannot be pushed out of the mouth, fire-bellied toads cannot spit out items that have been accidentally taken into the mouth.

No fish were to be found in the temporary bodies of water, unless they happened to become part of a year-round river or stream, but amid the roots of tall phragmite reeds, bulrushes, sedges, and cattails swam the tadpoles of edible frogs and fire-bellied toads.

The genera Bombina and Barbourula also used to be under this family, but have now been moved to the Bombinatoridae.

They are small toads of the fire-bellied toad family, Bombinatoridae, found in the Philippines and Borneo.

The Bombinatoridae are often referred to as fire-bellied toads because of their brightly colored ventral sides, which show they are highly toxic.

The Bornean flat-headed frog (Barbourula kalimantanensis) is a species of toad in the Bombinatoridae family.

These are Ascaphidae, Bombinatoridae, Discoglossidae and Leiopelmatidae which have few derived features and are probably paraphyletic with regard to other frog lineages.

The Small-webbed Bell Toad (Bombina microdeladigitora) is a species of toad in the Bombinatoridae family found in China and Vietnam.

In taxonomy, toads are spread across families Bufonidae, Bombinatoridae, Discoglossidae, Pelobatidae, Rhinophrynidae, Scaphiopodidae, and Microhylidae.

The Yellow-Bellied Toad (Bombina variegata) belongs to the order of Anura, the archaeobatrachial family of Bombinatoridae, and to the genus of fire-bellied toads.

Ranidae frogs, some Hylidae frogs, Bombinatoridae toads, Ascaphidae frogs, Pipidae frogs and all newts and salamanders are all semi-aquatic amphibians.

Barbourula was considered to be situated intermediate between Discoglossus and Bombina, but closer to the latter, and was therefore also added to the Bombinatoridae when that family was split from the Discoglossidae.