Fire-bellied toad

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title: Fire-bellied toad
text: The fire-bellied toads are a group of six species of small frogs belonging to the genus Bombina. The name "fire-bellied" is derived from the brightly colored red- or yellow-and-black patterns on the toads' ventral regions, which act as aposematic coloration, a warning to predators of the toads' reputedly foul taste. The other parts of the toads' skins are green or dark brown. When confronted with a potential predator, these toads commonly engage in an unkenreflex, Unken- being the combining form
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category slug: encyclopedia
description: Genus of amphibians
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-bellied_toad
date created: 2004-09-11T17:28:37Z
date modified: 2024-09-09T03:27:24Z
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image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Bombina_bombina_2_%28Marek_Szczepanek%29.jpg","width":650,"height":429}
fields total: 13
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