Talk:Edible frog

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• "kl." is not a species name nor part of one, so it must not be capitalized. I'll fix this in a minute.
• Let's see… the English language comes from Europe. Rana clamitans is exclusively North American. How can "green frog" possibly be incorrect for Rana synklepton esculenta?
• Bad article in general. Highly incomplete. Someone with time on their hands, please… :-}

David Marjanović | david.marjanovic_at_gmx.at | 14:45 CEST | 2006/06/05

The corresponding German article says that there are, in fact, pure edible frog populations, and that they are the norm in many areas. It goes on to say that some edible frogs are triploid, having a complete set of chromosomes of one parent species and half a set of the other. And that these special triploid edible frogs, and not pure parent species animals (which are much rarer anyway) are the key individuals in procreation. If that (sourced) info is correct, this article is plain wrong and needs to be fixed. -- 92.229.143.190 (talk) 01:01, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pelophylax esculentus genetics/reproduction is weird (hence the denotation as a klepton, which is more than just a fertile hybrid). IIRC, there is also more than one cytotype. We need a summary based on the primary literature. Lavateraguy (talk) 18:33, 20 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see anything about Pelophylax esculentus either in the Amphibian Species of the World Online Reference or in the Frost et al. paper cited. Could this be confusion with Pyxicephalus edulis? Nadiatalent (talk) 19:13, 24 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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The edible frog (Pelophylax kl. esculentus) is a fertile hybrid of the pool and marsh frogs which is commonly found in Europe. The species is commonly used in food, including the French delicacy frog legs.Photograph: Grand-Duc; edit: Niabot

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Hey @Plantdrew: or @NessieVL: uh, help? What's the procedure for kleptons/hybridogenesis? Would the species be written as kl. esculentus in the species box? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Starsandwhales (talk • contribs) 23:37, 8 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Starsandwhales:, I would leave this with a manual taxobox. Automatic taxoboxes can't reproduce the formatting used in the manual taxobox in this article (especially the link kl.).

I was actually thinking about mentioning that we shouldn't necessarily be going for 100% use of automatic taxoboxes in the thread at WikiProject Amphibians & Reptiles, with this article as an example (I've brought it up in previous discussions about leaving some articles with manual taxoboxes).

It's not really worth the effort to program automatic taxoboxes to support unusual formats that only show up a handful of times on Wikipedia. There are three articles that link klepton. There are three articles on graft-chimaeras (e.g. +Crataegomespilus). 9 articles use manual taxoboxes with |binomial2= (e.g. Nairobi fly); adding support for |binomial2= to automatic taxoboxes would be fairly easy since the code already exists for manual taxoboxes, but the better solution is to not have articles covering 2 species in the first place). There are a couple hundred articles under Category:Undescribed species, but it's questionable how many of them should have articles at all (WP:SPECIESOUTCOMES is predicated on species having been described). On the other hand, if we're not going to go on a spree deleting undescribed species, retaining manual taxoboxes for them helps to document the need for a new feature in automatic taxoboxes (that is, not italicizing the provisional name of an undescribed species).

BTW, your ping didn't work; I have this page on my watchlist. You forgot to sign, and the ping doesn't work when the post is unsigned (but re-signing a post is a way to fix a ping that didn't work if you misspelled a user name). Plantdrew (talk) 19:14, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Makes sense. Should we make a note of these kinds of exceptions on the wikiproject? starsandwhales (talk) 19:42, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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The edible frog or green frog (Pelophylax kl. esculentus) is a species of common European frog which occurs naturally from the northern half of France to western Russia and from Estonia and Denmark to Bulgaria and northern Italy and is also an introduced species in other parts of the continent. The edible frog is a fertile hybrid of the pool frog (Pelophylax lessonae) and the marsh frog (Pelophylax ridibundus) and reproduces using hybridogenesis, a process in which one parental genome is excluded. As implied by its name, the edible frog is used as food – particularly in France, as well as Germany and Italy– as the delicacy frog legs. This edible frog was spotted in the Danube delta east of Tulcea, Romania. Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp Recently featured: Hass avocado Northern mockingbird Archive More featured pictures

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