Abstract:We measured totally 9 types of body characteristic parameters of 23 female frogs (Odorrana tormota) including snout-vent length (SVL), head length (HL), head width (HW), width of lower arm (WLA), length of lower arm and hand (LAHL), forelimb length (FLL), hindlimb length (HLL), tibia length (TL), body mass (BM) in Huangshan Fuxi area after they ovulating to explore whether there is a correlation between fertility and the body characteristic parameters. We found out that the 9 types of body characteristic parameters frogs had significant positive correlation with clutch size (P < 0.05, Table 1). We also found out that SVL was also positively correlated with the rest 8 types of body characteristic parameters (P < 0.05, Table 2). By using the SVL as the control variable, we conducted a partial correlation analysis and got a positively correlation of the clutch size with BM (P < 0.05, Table 3). These results indicated those females who with longer SVL and heavier BM produced a larger clutch size and had a stronger fertility. The clutch size between female individuals was differences with average around 646.5 ± 37.6 (590﹣706). The larger individual females have stronger fertility and larger reproductive output, which may be played an important role for the high degree sexual dimorphism of the concave-eared torrent female frogs. In order to explore what kind of mating patterns do male and female frogs choose, we measured and compared the 9 body characteristic parameters mentioned above from 21 mating paires and found out that the body characteristic parameters did not affect the female frogs selecting their matings (P > 0.05, Table 4). The fact means that the female frogs may prefer males with other quality characteristics, such as croaks.