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Red-spotted Toad - Anaxyrus punctatus

Sapo de Puntos Rojos

(Baird and Girard, 1852)

(= Bufo punctatus)
speaker
One short call

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Adult, Cape Region, Baja California Sur
© John T. Snow
Juvenile, Agua Caliente, Baja California Sur
  Red-spotted Toad  
  Adult, Baja California Sur
© William Flaxington
 
     
Habitat
Red-spotted Toad  habitat Red-spotted Toad habitat Red-spotted Toad habitat
Habitat, Agua Caliente, Baja California Sur © Jackson Shedd Habitat, Agua Caliente,
Baja California Sur
Habitat, Baja California Sur
© William Flaxington
     
Short Videos of this Species
Red-spotted Toad Red-spotted Toad tadpole Red-spotted Toad tadpoles
A male Red-spotted Toad calls at night in San Diego County, California, U.S.A. California Treefrogs are calling in the background. Tiny toadlets still transforming from tadpoles crawl around on a mat of algae in a desert pond in San Diego County, California, U.S.A.
Red-spotted Toad tadpoles in a small desert pond in San Diego County, California, U.S.A.
  Red-spotted Toad  
  Several calling male Red-spotted toads at night in a desert creekbed in Yavapai County, Arizona, U.S.A., refuse to call while the camera lights are on them.  
     

References:


Grismer, L. Lee. Amphibians and Reptiles of Baja California, Including Its Pacific Islands and the Islands in the Sea of Cortés. The University of California Press, 2002.

McPeak, Ron H. Amphibians and Reptiles of Baja California. Sea Challengers, 2000.

Samuel M. McGinnis and Robert C. Stebbins. Peterson Field Guide to Western Reptiles & Amphibians. 4th Edition. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2018.

Stebbins, Robert C. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians. 3rd Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003.

The Reptile Database

San Diego Natural History Museum







Baja California Reptiles & Amphibians

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