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The Colorado River toad (Incilius alvarius), also known as the Sonoran Desert toad, is a toad species found in northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States.It is well known for its ability to exude toxins from glands within its skin that have psychoactive properties.
The common Mexican tree frog (Smilisca baudinii) is a nocturnal species of tree frog whose native range extends from the Sonoran Desert and the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas [2] south to Costa Rica. Common names include Mexican tree frog, Baudin's tree frog and Van Vliet's frog.
The Sonoran Desert. The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert and ecoregion which covers large parts of the southwestern United States and of northwestern Mexico. With an area of 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 sq mi), it is the hottest desert in Mexico. The western portion of the Mexico–United States border passes through the Sonoran ...
Pages in category "Fauna of the Sonoran Desert" The following 137 pages are in this category, out of 137 total. ... Common Mexican tree frog; Costa's hummingbird ...
When people think of the desert southwest, the landscape of the Sonoran Desert is what mostly comes to mind. [12] The Sonoran Desert makes up the southwestern portion of the Southwest. Rainfall averages between 4–12 inches per year, and the desert's most widely known inhabitant is the saguaro cactus, which is unique to the desert.
Sonoran desert toad * Anaxyrus boreas halophilus: Western toad ... Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog Family Eleutherodactylidae. Image Species Common name
The call of Couch's spadefoot toad. Couch's spadefoot toad or Couch's spadefoot (Scaphiopus couchii) is a species of North American spadefoot toad (family Scaphiopodidae). [2] The specific epithet couchii is in honor of American naturalist Darius Nash Couch, who collected the first specimen while on a personal expedition to northern Mexico to collect plant, mineral, and animal specimens for ...
The Sonoran green toad (Anaxyrus retiformis; in Spanish "sapo verde de Sonora" or "sapo verde sonorense") [1] [2] [3] is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It is found in northern Mexico and the southwestern United States .