A member of the water frog group with green backs which show black spots in females.
Males are brightly yellowis-green during mating season.
In the west it extends to the Atlantic Ocean in France, in the north are a few populations in Sweden, in the northeast the distribution extends beyond St. Petersburg, the southern border is assumed to be the Danube in the east. In Kalabria Santucci et al. The following recordings are short sequences of longer recordings. Rana esculenta var. References Beerli, P. 1994.