An unusually coloured individual of the common spadefoot toad Pelobates fuscus (Laurenti, 1768)

The background colouration of the spadefoot toad Pelobates fuscus, an anuran species found in Europe is typically light grey/yellow grey/light olive-green. However, atypical specimen, whose was brightly coloured yellowish green (light green/lime/yellow coloured), with darker small spots distributed through dorsal parts and four main slightly shaped observed Poland (Great Poland, Mościejewo village), near to two ponds. ecological effects individual can be adaptively important, its similarity vegetation (predator avoidance).