<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Water frog mating calls from two localities were studied and analyzed. Recordings were made in the summer of 2010 at the Arkutino swamp near the town of Primorsko and at the Vurbitza River near the town of Momchilgrad. A total of 154 calls were analyzed and the results suggested the presence of both the Marsh frog (Pelophylax ridibundus) and the Levant frog (Pelophylax bedriagae) in both sites, with the former being more frequent in Vurbitza River, and the latter – in Arkutino. At Vurbitza, we also captured and measured 2 specimens, which morphological characteristics differed from P. ridibundus and matched those of P. bedriagae. These are the first localities for P. bedriagae in Bulgaria.</p></abstract>

Water frog mating calls from two localities were studied and analyzed. Recordings were made in the summer of 2010 at the Arkutino swamp near the town of Primorsko and at the Vurbitza River near the town of Momchilgrad. A total of 154 calls were analyzed and the results suggested the presence of both the Marsh frog (Pelophylax ridibundus) and the Levant frog (Pelophylax bedriagae) in both sites, with the former being more frequent in Vurbitza River, and the latter – in Arkutino. At Vurbitza, we also captured and measured 2 specimens, which morphological characteristics differed from P. ridibundus and matched those of P. bedriagae. These are the first localities for P. bedriagae in Bulgaria.

First bioacoustic and morphological data for the presence of <italic>Pelophylax bedriagae</italic> in Bulgaria

Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Acta Scientifica Naturalis

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First bioacoustic and morphological data for the presence of  in Bulgaria

Water frog mating calls from two localities were studied and analyzed. Recordings were made in the summer of 2010 at the Arkutino swamp near the town of...

First bioacoustic and morphological data for the presence of Pelophylax bedriagae in Bulgaria

Published Online: Mar 07, 2018

Page range: 54 - 63

Received: Nov 30, 2017

Accepted: Jan 11, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/asn-2018-0008

Keywords
distribution, Levant frog, locality, mating call, measurements

© 2018 Simeon Lukanov et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

First bioacoustic and morphological data for the presence of Pelophylax bedriagae in Bulgaria

Published Online: Mar 07, 2018

Page range: 54 - 63

Received: Nov 30, 2017

Accepted: Jan 11, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/asn-2018-0008

Keywordsdistribution, Levant frog, locality, mating call, measurements

© 2018 Simeon Lukanov et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
distribution, Levant frog, locality, mating call, measurements