Southwest Reptiles and Amphibians
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Red-spotted Toad - Anaxyrus punctatus
(Baird and Girard, 1852)(= Bufo punctatus)
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| Adult, Santa Cruz County, Arizona | Adult, Pima County, Arizona | Adult, Pima County, Arizona |
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| Adult, Santa Cruz County, Arizona | Underside of adult, Pima County, Arizona | Recently-metamorphosed juvenile, Washington County, Utah |
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| Recently-metamorphosed juvenile, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. | Recently-metamorphosed juvenile, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. |
Recently-metamorphosed juvenile, Washington County, Utah |
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| Adult male calling at night, Pima County, Arizona |
Male and female in amplexus, with eggs on bottom of pool, San Bernardino County, California © Todd Battey | |
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| Red-spotted Toads lay their eggs singly or in a small cluster. Other North American toads lay their eggs in strings. | Two small egg clusters on aquatic vegetation at the surface of a small pool in a desert wash in Yavapai County, Arizona. | Eggs, San Bernardino County, California © Todd Battey |
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| Tadpole, Riverside County, California |
Tadpole, Riverside County, California | |
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| Habitat and breeding pool, a small creek in the Pajarito Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. |
Habitat, Yavapai County, Arizona | Habitat, Yavapai County, Arizona |
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| Habitat, Washington County, Utah |
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| Short Videos | ||
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| Several calling male Red-spotted toads at night in a desert creekbed in Yavapai County, Arizona, refuse to call while the camera lights are on them. | A male Red-spotted Toad calls at night in San Diego County, California. California Treefrogs are calling in the background. | Red-spotted Toad tadpoles in a small desert pond in San Diego County, California. |
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| Tiny toadlets still transforming from tadpoles crawl around on a mat of algae in a desert pond in San Diego County, California. |
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