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Red-spotted Toad - Anaxyrus punctatus
Sapo de Puntos Rojos
(Baird and Girard, 1852)(= Bufo punctatus)
 One short call |
| Species Description and More Pictures |
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| Adult, Cape Region, Baja California Sur © John T. Snow |
Juvenile, Agua Caliente, Baja California Sur | |
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| Adult, Baja California Sur © William Flaxington |
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| Habitat | ||
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| 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 | ||
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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