Listen to the marsh frog
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About the marsh frog
The marsh frog is a amphibian in the family Ranidae (order Anura). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “least concern”.
What does the marsh frog sound like?
Male frogs and toads call by pushing air over their vocal cords into a vocal sac that acts as a resonator. Each species has its own call, so choruses can be identified by ear – and calling peaks on warm, wet nights.
The recordings here are labelled as song. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
The marsh frog (Pelophylax ridibundus) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae. It is native to continental Europe and parts of western Asia, where it inhabits bodies of water from puddles and ponds to lakes and rivers, and even brackish coastal environments, as well as their surrounding areas. Closely related to the pool frog and Perez's frog, the marsh frog can interbreed with these species to produce fertile hybrids called the edible frog and Graf's hybrid frog respectively, which maintain their populations by breeding with one of their parental species. Though the marsh frog is very similar to these related forms in appearance, it can be distinguished from them based on vocal sac color, snout shape, leg length, the shape of a hardened lump on the foot, the extent of the foot webbing and various skeletal features.
Related frogs & amphibians in the genus Pelophylax
More from the family Ranidae
Frequently asked questions
What does a marsh frog sound like?
You can hear 2 recordings of the marsh frog on this page, including its song. Male frogs and toads call by pushing air over their vocal cords into a vocal sac that acts as a resonator.
Is the marsh frog endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the marsh frog as “least concern”.
What family does the marsh frog belong to?
The marsh frog (Pelophylax ridibundus) belongs to the family Ranidae in the order Anura.
Sources & credits
- Pelophylax ridibundus at Mali lag, Botevgrad, Bulgaria by Dimitǎr Boevski – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Song · Botanical school, Jardin des Plantes, Paris… by Marie-Lan Taÿ Pamart – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q319393 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Marsh frog – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Christian Fischer – CC BY-SA 3.0