European fire-bellied toad
The European fire-bellied toad is a medium-sized frog that lives in ponds and marshes across Central and Eastern Europe. It is famous for its bright red belly, which it shows off to warn predators that it is toxic. Its loud 'whoop' call is also distinctive.1

Co renconuscher el
- Medium-sized frog, growing up to about 5.6 cm.1
- Back colour can be grey, brown or green, and is covered in warts.1
- Belly is red with thick black mottling.1
- When threatened, it lifts its arms, sometimes flipping over, to show its red belly.1
Savens confundì cun: The yellow-bellied toad (Bombina variegata) is closely related and the two can hybridise where they overlap. The yellow-bellied toad lives at higher elevations in ponds that dry up quickly, has longer legs and thicker skin, and cannot call as loudly.1
Forza tossica
Sia pel è tossica. Igl è privlus d'al tutgar, d'al litgar u d'al mangiar.
Tge fa sia substanza tossica?
The skin of this toad contains bombinins, which have antibacterial and antifungal effects. Its red belly warns predators that its skin is toxic.1
Quant privlus è el per umans?
Privel per umans: LevSco ina piztgada d'avieul u main. Practicamain nunprivlus per umans.Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?
When threatened, it lifts its arms, sometimes flipping over, to expose its red belly and warn predators of its toxicity.1
Sch'insatgi l'ha tutgà u mangià
- Sch'insatgi ha tutgà in tal animal: lava bain ils mauns e na tutga betg ils egls u la bucca. Sch'in uffant u in animal da chasa ha litgà u mangià in tal animal: clama il center toxicologic u tes numer d'urgenza.
Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid
Resta en segirezza
- Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
- Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
- Sche ti l'has tutgà u mangià: na sfruscha betg ils egls u la bucca, lava ils mauns e tschertga agid medicinal.
El n'ha betg quai sin tai. Ses tissi è mo là, per che nagin na al mangia. Dapli davart la segirezza
Quant grond è el?
Quant lung è el?
pli curt che tes det pitschen
pudess currer 100 meters en 180 secundas (l'uman il pli svelt dovra 9,6)Quant grond è European fire-bellied toad cumpareglià cun TAI?
Mo matematica en tes navigatur. Nagut na vegn memorisà u tramess.
Quant svelt è el?
Fatgs
The antifungal effect of bombinins in the skin makes them promising for use in food packaging to slow spoilage.1
A population in Lorraine, France, lives more than 500 km from its natural range, probably because people moved them there on purpose.1
Dozens of ponds dug in Funen County, Denmark, helped increase the population about five-fold in a decade.1
The prokineticin family of compounds was first discovered in this species and the yellow-bellied toad.1
Per experts da tissi
- Num scientific
- Bombina bombina
- Gruppa
- Raunas tossicas, rospis e salamandras d'aua
- Famiglia
- Bombinatoridae2
- Urden
- Anura
- Continents
- Europa
- Poppins
- Females lay up to 15 to 40 eggs, depending on their size. Tadpoles hatch in about a week and develop for about a month before metamorphosing at about 3.8 cm.1
- Co ch'i va ad el en la natira
- Least Concern (IUCN), though it has suffered losses in parts of its range1
- Privel per umans
- 1 / 5: Lev3
Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs
- European fire-bellied toad (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Bombina bombina (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
- Venom Wiki: il stgalim da privel, la grondezza tipica e la stima da la sveltezza èn noss agens. Guarda co che nus als calculain: Co che nus valitain il privel.
Mintga fatg sin questa pagina ha in numer che renvia a sia funtauna. Sche nus avain fatg in sbagl, perstgisa, nus essan fans d'animals, betg ina revista scientifica. Scriva a nus a [email protected] e nus curregin.
Tissi en sia pel

