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The edible frog or green frog (Pelophylax kl. esculentus) is a species of common European frog which occurs naturally from the northern half of France to western Russia and from Estonia and Denmark to Bulgaria and northern Italy and is also an introduced species in other parts of the continent. The edible frog is a fertile hybrid of the pool frog (Pelophylax lessonae) and the marsh frog (Pelophylax ridibundus) and reproduces using hybridogenesis, a process in which one parental genome is excluded. As implied by its name, the edible frog is used as food – particularly in France, as well as Germany and Italy– as the delicacy frog legs. This edible frog was spotted in the Danube delta east of Tulcea, Romania.Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

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