fire-bellied toad
Bombina latin

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

The European Fire-bellied Toad may live more than 10 years.

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

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

Fire-bellied Toads are usually fed live food.

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

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

A fire-bellied toad skipped across our path.

In some species, such as the fire-bellied toad (Bombina spp.)

The Oriental fire-bellied toad (right) keeps its bright colours on its underside.

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

Children will be invited to handle these species, as well as an African clawed frog, a fire-bellied toad and some newts.

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.

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

European fire-bellied toad

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

Oriental Fire-bellied Toad

Other species, such as the European fire-bellied toad (Bombina bombina), have their warning colour underneath.

The European Fire-bellied Toad is 26-60 mm long and may weigh 2-13.9 g. The body is depressed.

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

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

Bombesin is a 14-amino acid peptide originally isolated from the skin of the oriental fire-bellied toad (Bombina orientalis).

Yellow-bellied toads have a compact body - though not so flat as the related European Fire-bellied Toad - and a rounded snout.

Common variants of the name 'Fire-bellied toad' include 'firebelly toad' and 'firebellied toad'.

In addition, protected amphibians like the Moor Frog and the European Fire-bellied Toad are also found here.

They are the largest of the bombina family.

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

When kept in captivity, it is important to provide adequate hiding places as Bombina orientalis need to feel a sense of security.

Yellow-bellied Toads (Bombina variegata) are also common in that same area.

This family includes two genera, Barbourula and Bombina, both of which have flattened bodies.

In some species, such as the fire-bellied toad (Bombina spp.)

It includes two genus Barbourula and Bombina.

They are slightly less colored than Bombina, and possess webbed fingers in addition to webbed toes.

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

Other species, such as the European fire-bellied toad (Bombina bombina), have their warning colour underneath.

Barbourula species occur in the Philippine Islands and Borneo, while Bombina species are found throughout Eurasia.

Fossil Bombina specimens are known from the Pliocene to the Pleistocene; there are no known fossils of Barbourula.

The Lichuan Bell Toad (Bombina lichuanensis) is a species of toad in the Bombinatoridae family.

Like other Bombina species, Bombina orientalis is semi-aquatic, inhabiting warm, humid forested regions.

Firebelly toads (Bombina orientalis), Paddletail newts (Pachytriton spp.)

In molecular biology, the bombinin family of antimicrobial peptides includes the bombinin and maximin proteins from Bombina maxima (Giant fire-bellied toad).

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

Like other Bombina species, Bombina orientalis have a bright yellow to red (generally bright reddish-orange) ventral region mottled with dark brown to black.

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.

The Oriental Fire-bellied Toad, (Bombina orientalis) is a small (4 cm, 2") semi-aquatic frog species found in Korea, north-eastern China and adjacent parts of Russia.

The European Fire-bellied Toad (Bombina bombina) is a fire-bellied toad native to mainland Europe.

The toads include Bufo bufo, Alytes obstetricans, Bombina variegata, Bufo calamita, Pelobates fuscus and Pelobates cultripes.

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.

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.

Bombina bombina x variegate (hibrid forms between the yellow-bellied and the fire-bellied toad, Bombina bombina)