Amphibia · Anura
Bombina orientalisBoulenger, 1890
Oriental Bell Toad
Photograph by Vassil, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
A nocturnal frog reaching 47 mm snout to vent.
Also called Oriental Fire-bellied Toad, Oriental Firebelly Toad, Oriental firebelly toad.
Amphibia › Anura › Bombinatoridae › Bombina
- Grows to
- 47mm
- greatest recorded
- Active
- Nocturnal
- Lives up to
- 20years
- Lives
- Aquatic, fossorial, terrestrial
What is known
22 sourced facts, each taken from a named scientific dataset. How to read these.
Cited from a dataset unless a row is marked otherwise.
Standing in the world
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
- Population trend
- Decreasing
as reported by the IUCN Red List
The animal itself
- Longest recorded life
- 20years
Size
- Length snout to vent · greatest recorded
- 47mm1.75 in
- Length snout to vent · adult female mean
- 42.2mm1.75 in
- Length snout to vent · adult male mean
- 41.8mm1.75 in
- Body mass · greatestmeasured
- 13.1g0.46 oz
snout-to-vent length, as this source reports for Anura
mean adult female snout-to-vent length
mean adult male snout-to-vent length
maximum adult body mass as recorded in the source
How it lives
- Eats arthropods
- Yes
- Eats vertebrates
- Unknown
- Eats plant matter
- Unknown
- Active
- Nocturnal
- Where it lives
- Aquatic, fossorial, terrestrial
- Active in
- Wet and warm
a blank flag in this source means unrecorded, not absent
Breeding
- Reproduction
- Oviparous
- How the young develop
- Through a larval stage
- Average clutch
- 165
- Eggs or young per clutch
- 38–257eggs
- Clutches in a year
- 1per year
- Hatchling length
- 1.5–2.4mm0.1–0.1 in
midpoint of the reported range — Han, 2008. Does life history shape sexual size dimorphism in anurans: a comparative analysis. PhD Thesis, University of Guelph, 164 p.
Naming and history
- Described by
- Boulenger
- Moved to another genus · since it was first described
- Yes
- Described in
- 1890
Keeping one
No enclosure size is given here
Swiss law sets amphibian enclosure sizes family by family, and this family is not among the ones its table names. No figure is given rather than one borrowed from a different kind of animal.
Swiss Tierschutzverordnung (TSchV), SR 455.1, Anhang 2, Tabelle 6 — legally binding minimum enclosure sizes for amphibians, given as multiples of total body length and stated for two animals.
Feeding
2kJ per day
Worked out for an animal of 13 g, the heaviest recorded for Oriental Bell Toad — so it is the top of the range, not a figure for a particular animal. Weigh yours and the number will be lower.
An upper estimate, not a feeding target, and not veterinary advice. The equation covers only what an animal burns staying alive, so a growing, gravid or recovering animal needs more — and it was measured on wild animals, which move far more than one in an enclosure. Body condition and a vet who knows the species are what a feeding decision should rest on. Where this comes from.
Morphs
0 with peer-reviewed genetics behind them, 1 resting on breeder consensus. Most references present both with the same confidence.
- Green and belly colourbreeder consensus
How green the back is and how red or orange the belly. This varies with individual, diet and condition, and the back also darkens and lightens with temperature and mood.
Worth knowing. The red belly this species is named for is a warning display — the toad arches to show it — and its depth depends partly on diet and condition rather than on ancestry alone. No single-gene morph has been established.
What nobody knows
These are not gaps in our research. No scientific dataset records them for this species — and saying so is information you cannot get from a reference that simply leaves a field out.
- — Still living
- — Length snout to vent · adult mean
- — Length nose to tail · greatest recorded
- — Female length · mean, nose to tail
- — Length nose to tail · adult male mean
- — Length nose to tail · adult mean
- — Largest female · snout to vent
- — Largest male · snout to vent
- — Largest female · shell length
- — Largest male · shell length
- — Hatchling length · snout to vent
- — Hatchling length · nose to tail
- — Largest juvenile · snout to vent
- — Largest juvenile · shell length
- — Egg length
- — Egg width
- — Body mass · a typical adult
- — Body mass · adult female, mean
- — Body mass at hatching
- — Preferred body temperature · chosen in a laboratory gradient
- — Body temperature when active · measured in the wild
- — Diet
- — How it hunts
- — Gestation or incubation
- — Mean clutch · smallest reported
- — Mean clutch · largest reported
- — Clutches a year · fewest
- — Clutches a year · most
- — First breeds from · youngest recorded
- — First breeds by · oldest recorded
- — Age at first breeding · female
- — Mature from · youngest recorded
- — Mature by · oldest recorded
- — Size at maturity · smallest recorded
- — Size at maturity · largest recorded
- — Venomous
- — Fangs
- — Body temp in the wild · lowest mean recorded
- — Body temp in the wild · highest mean recorded
- — Limbs
- — Colour on the back
- — Pattern on the back
- — Pupil
- — Sex decided by
- — Status assessed · the year the Red List last looked
- — Red List criteria
- — Region
- — Biome
- — Active season · shortest recorded
- — Active season · longest recorded
- — Density · lowest recorded
- — Density · highest recorded
- — Home range · largest recorded
- — Suborder
- — Infraorder
- — Subspecies
- — Type locality
- — Habitat
- — Mainland or island
- — Lowest it lives · above sea level
- — Highest it lives · above sea level
- — Range size
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Cite this page
The Reptile & Amphibian Encyclopedia (2026). Bombina orientalis. Retrieved 2026-09-08, from https://www.allanglescreatures.com/species/bombina-orientalis
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