The skin colouration varies depending upon habitat, gender and region, but is usually light-grey to beige-brown on the dorsal surface.

In reality there is no physical or behavioural character allowing to distinguish these supposed subspecies.

A recent study showed that there is no haplotype segregation for the populations of Northern Italy, that, therefore, are not to be ascribed to a different subspecies.

Populations from eastern Europe appear sufficiently different that they may warrant a separate species status (Pelobates vespertinus).

The first findings of tadpoles and the reproductive site of the common spadefoot toad in Bosnia and Herzegovina.