The kind Alytes gathers several species S located in Europe, except for the most Scandinavian and septentrional parts, like in the North-West of the Africa.

List species

• Alytes cisternasii Boscá, 1879.
• Alytes dickhilleni Arntzen and García-París, 1995.
• Alytes maurus Pasteur and Bons, 1962.
• Alytes muletensis (Sanchíz and Adrover, 1979).
• Alytes obstetricans (Laurenti, 1768) - Alyte obstetrician or Clamping plate obstetrician.

Behavior

This small toad with the song flute appreciates the wet and oligotrophic stony zones. From day, the adult hides under the stones out of the eau
Single characteristic in the Amphibians, the male deals with the eggs, of which it rolls up the ribbons laid by the female, while fertilizing them, around its back legs. It protects them out of the pond, and brings back them the night, or every two nights to humidify them.

It is a nonforest clamping plate which colonizes new habitats rather easily (ponds, great ruts, flooded careers.) provided that they are not too distant.

If water is cold, that the laying was late, or that the food missed the tétard can spend the next winter in the mud and take an abnormally large size before ceasing feeding next spring to transform itself into a young clamping plate, of normal size.

Geographical distribution

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