Can back by way of a kid with a father that knows his stuff!! Think I know the chap, lol.
Anyway over the years I realized and have owned TWO TYPES of this species. One I had many years ago was very light Olive on the back while the one a few years back was dark Olive. All this type are green by the way and no despite what you may hear, be told or READ this is the only Yellow Bellied Toad that is green! I have personally seen 7 types of Yellow Bellied Toads in all, did write and complete a book on European Amphibians, and no normal, NOMINAL, Yellow Bellied Toads ever have green on them. European Fire Bellied Toads, Bombina bombina, CAN be green and you get some very nice ones too. But not Bombina variegata. Bombina scabra is a light sandy tan, or at least of the ones I have seen are, and can have some small green flecks scattered about but that is all.
As you can see from the pictures below Bombina kolombatovici are green. I will get some better pictures and of the bellies too, this one is very young and not coloured up completely yet, but these can be a brilliant Canary yellow underneath that makes up about 70 to 90% of the underside. The dark spotting is normally bluish or pastel blue which they can also have around the edge of the flanks and legs. You can probably see this in the pictures.
Now there are four types of Yellow Bellied Toads that you will see listed and these are...
Bombina variegata (of which I have see at least two types of)
Bombina kolombatovici (of which I have seen and kept two types of)
Bombina pachypus (remarkably bright tangerine and blue bellied type from Italy and appears to be two forms)
Bombina scabra (largish and light tan type that tends to be orange from Greece SEE NEXT POST)
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