Red-Spotted Toads
by Damian Fagan
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Red-spotted Toad (Bufo punctatus)
Description: To 3" snout-vent length. Color gray to brown, with rusty orange to red warts. Cranial crests absent. Elevation Range: Below 6000' in eastern Colorado; below 7000' in western Colorado.
Red-spotted Toad, Bufo punctatus
The Red-spotted Toad is one of the smaller toads, reaching lengths around 2 1/2 to 3 inches. The only toad with round parotid glands that are the same size as the eye.
I'm not confident that I've identified them correctly; a friend believes that they are probably Red-spotted Toads (Anaxyrus punctatus), but they really don't look like that species to me.
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There are about a dozen Bufo species in the United States, among them the common American toad (Bufo americanus), Fowlers toad (B. fowleri), of the E United States, and the red-spotted toad (B. punctatus), of the Southwest.
 See also: Toad, American Toad, Burro, Canyon Treefrog, Salamander
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