Bufonidae Bufo mauritanicus Hyla arborea
Bufo viridis Laurenti, 1768
Green Toad, European Green Toad, Variable Toad

= Epidalea viridis Laurenti, 1768
= Pseudepidalea viridis (Laurenti, 1768)

B. viridis (© Paolo Mazzei)

Adult (male), Terme di Stigliano, Tolfa (Viterbo), Italy
(Photo by Paolo Mazzei)

B. viridis (© Paolo Mazzei)

Adult (female), Terme di Stigliano, Tolfa (Viterbo), Italy
(Photo by Paolo Mazzei)

B. viridis (© Paolo Mazzei)

Adult, Ag. Triada (Crete), Greece
(Photo by Paolo Mazzei)

B. viridis (© Jeroen Speybroeck)

Adults (two males), Lake Mikri Prespa, Greece, May 4, 2004
(Photo by Jeroen Speybroeck, Herpetofauna of Europe)

B. viridis (© Nicola Nitti)

Adult (male), Conversano (Bari), Italy, March 2003
(Photo by Nicola Nitti, Italy, nitti.nicola@libero.it)

B. viridis (© Paolo Mazzei)

Subadult, Ag. Triada (Crete), Greece
(Photo by Paolo Mazzei)


Distribution:
Europe (including southern tip of Sweden, but excluding the rest of Fenno-Skandia and the British Isles and western Europe west of the Rhine River south to Sicily and Crete) east to Kazakhstan, Tadjikistan, Kerman Province of Iran (and likely adjacent Afghanistan, and Altai mountains in Russia, Mongolia, and western Xinjiang, China; isolated populations on the Balearic Is., Sardinia, Corsica; northern Africa from northern coastal Western Sahara, western Morocco and Algeria (including the Ahoggar Massif) to western Libya; southwestern Asia and Arabian Peninsula in the southern Hadramaut

Similar species:
Bufo bufo (Bufonidae)

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