Laevis Sexing.

[marco]

Quick question, does anyone know how to sex Budget's frogs?

I recently picked up a pair and both have black hard keel's on their back feet. I know most male anurans have Nupital pads on their front legs but I havent heard of them on the back legs...?

*By the way neither of them have dark throats. both are 3.5 to 4 inches long.

Thanks,

Marco.

 

[marco]

Any Body?...

 

[Kurt]

I will admit I know nothing about Lepidobatrachus laevis, but a quick search on AmphibiaWeb and I found the following captions.

"Females of this species may reach a total body length (SVL) of 100 mm, while a sexually mature male may be only half as large."
"Sexually mature males possess a dark blue-black throat (Budgett 1899; Cei 1980)."

 

[Akakko]

Does anybody have a picture of what color of blue throat is supposed to look like?