EditorialEuropean fire-bellied toad, Bombina bombina (Fire frog, Rana ignea). Adult, tadpole and frog spawn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Heath after an illustration by George Shaw from his General Zoology, Amphibia, London, 1801.
EditorialEuropean fire-bellied toad, Bombina bombina 17, and natterjack toad, Epidalea calamita 18. Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's "Encyclopedia of Natural History: Amphibia," Augsburg, 1794. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bav...