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The western toad (Anaxyrus boreas) is a large toad species, between 5.6 and 13 cm (2.2 and 5.1 in) long, native to western North America. [1] [3] [4] A. boreas is frequently encountered during the wet season on roads, or near water at other times. It can jump a considerable distance for a toad.
The Colorado River toad is known to breed in artificial water bodies (e.g., flood control impoundments, reservoirs) and as a result, the distributions and breeding habitats of these species may have been recently altered in south-central Arizona. [8] It often makes its home in rodent burrows and is nocturnal.
This was one of the first amphibians to be listed under the Endangered Species Act in 1970. Will what the Fort Worth Zoo is doing help?
Fowler's toad in leaf litter. Anaxyrus fowleri, Fowler's toad, [3] is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. The species is native to North America, where it occurs in much of the eastern United States and parts of adjacent Canada. [1] [2] It was previously considered a subspecies of Woodhouse's toad (Anaxyrus woodhousii, formerly Bufo ...
The toad is bigger, breeds earlier and uses a different habitat to English toads [Jersey Biodiversity Centre] Islanders have been asked to become citizen scientists in a bid to help Jersey's newts ...
The Texas toad feeds on insects such as beetles, ants and bugs. It digs a burrow in soft soil and can bury itself in mud. It sometimes conceals itself in a gopher burrow, under a log or in a deep crack in the mud to prevent desiccation, spending much of its time dormant in prolonged dry weather.
Hydrological analysis indicates that the White River likely had a historical connection to the Colorado River, allowing western toads from modern-day Colorado and Utah to disperse into the southern Great Basin; changes in river flow led to this isolation of these populations and allowed them to diverge into A. monfontanus and A. nevadensis. [4]
The southern toad (Anaxyrus terrestris) is a true toad native to the southeastern United States, from eastern Louisiana and southeastern Virginia south to Florida. [2] It often lives in areas with sandy soils. It is nocturnal and spends the day in a burrow. Its coloring is usually brown but can be red, gray, or black.