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Laevis Sexing.

marco

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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.

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