all of those things you used to describe this frog are completely subjective and highly variable in a species that is already known to be highly variable in coloration and pattern. None of those features are used to describe and differentiate this species from others.



I have no way of knowing if any of the Asian species of frogs looks like ours, but it is awfully convenient that I am 100 percent sure it is a leopard frog.



It is not a Pickerel frog because I do not see any yellow on the inside of the legs.



>>I normally would agree with you, and actually did think it was a leopard at first, but it seems to me the patterning isn't quite right. The closest picture I could find to my frog that is identified as a 'leopard frog' is this one: Leopard Frog

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>>Take a look at the legs for one.. the dark line on the inside edge of the thigh in my frog is not there at all in the leopard frog. And look at the white line that accentuates the mouth.. In my frog it curves upward before the foreleg (you can just see this in the slightly blurry side shot) and then has a fainter blotchier line of white that meets with the white of the sides, whereas in the leopard frog it is straight and ends at the latter edge of the foreleg, not touching the white of the sides at all. And also, I don't know if it is just the way the photo was taken, but my frog seems to have a rusty hue to his nose and his eye sockets as seen from above, where the leopard does not.

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>>I'm sure they are the same genus, but the species could quite possibly be one from asia, where the firebellies originate.
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