The eggs are usually olive-brown in colour with dark speckles or blotches. Juveniles have dark dorsal blotches on a grayish ground color. The eggs are usually greenish in colour with brown blotches. Below, the head is yellowish white with scattered dark blotches. Each of these diamond-shaped blotches is outlined with a row of cream or yellowish scales. Their undersides have a lengthwise pattern of blotches, lines, or arrowhead marks. Tadpoles are dark brown or grey, with light blotches on the underside. The belly is pale with irregular brown or black blotches. The body is a yellow-brown color which is sometimes covered in dark spots or blotches. The underbelly has a creamy color with small, dark, irregular blotches. The side blotches are often brown or gray. These are enclosed within irregular, black, rhombic blotches. Irregular blotches or stripes of dark green on the basic natural metal scheme. The plastron, or lower shell, is yellow with dark blotches symmetrically arranged. The young usually have more prominent blotches and facial markings than the adults.