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Plains Spadefoot Toad (Spea bombifrons)
Description: To 2¼" snout-vent length. Color greenish, gray, or brown, with scattered darker spots or blotches. Bony lump between eyes. Wedge-shaped spade on each hind foot.
Eastern Spadefoot Toad - Scaphiopus holbrookii
Diagnostic Features:
Size: 2 to 3 inches (45 to 72 mm)
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Eastern Spadefoot Toad (Scaphiopus holbrookii)
Photos by J.D. Willson unless otherwise noted
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The Eastern Spadefoot Toad, Scaphiopus holbrookii holbrookii, is found in temporary ponds statewide. It is greenish to brown with light stripes. Its spades are black. It has warty skin and large eyes with vertical pupils. It is 3" long.
Great Basin Spadefoot Toad (Spea intermontana)
Species Code: SPIN
What they look like: The Great Basin Spadefoot Toad is a small rotund amphibian, with gray or olive-green coloration.
Couch's Spadefoot Toad
Scaphiopus couchii
Spadefoot toads aren't around much. They spend a great deal of their time buried in the soil, waiting for the rains that must eventually come.
Spadefoot Toads can be found from north-central to southern California. It likes dry areas with sandy plants. The Spadefoot looks for places where it can burrow and dig with the spades on the hind legs, so loose, dry soil is essential.
Spadefoot toads live in the dry interior of south-central British Columbia. They are also found in the northwestern United States.
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The spadefoot toads include nine genera with over 80 species worldwide. Examples of spadefoots may be found in Europe, Asia, northern Africa, and North America (including Mexico).
The spadefoot toad is currently having a population explosion across Florida as millions and millions of baby toadlets are hopping about in the wake of the recent hurricanes.
Notice that I said these ecosystems were well-adapted to hurricanes.
A young spadefoot toad.
Photo by JD Willson
Spadefoots have vertical pupils, unlike typical toads of the genus Bufo.
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Australian spadefoot toads rise like zombies at the first rain.
Walking on water
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Varaldi's spadefoot toad (Pelobates varaldii)
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Eastern Spadefoot Toad - Scaphiopus holbrookii holbrookii
Description: 1 ¾ - 3" (4.4-7.5 cm). Sickle-shaped spade on each hind foot used for digging. Smooth skin with only a few warts. Brown to olive color.
- Spadefoot toads (family Pelobatidae) can act as amphibian weather forecasters. Before a rainstorm they come out by the hundreds to croak something that sounds like, "Rain-today, rain-today." Then people who live nearby know to expect a storm.
Scaphiopodidae (Spadefoot Toads) Anura (Frogs and Toads) wildherps.com
Index of scientific names, sighting dates, locations
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Selection by predation on albino and normal spadefoot toads. Evolution. 7: 228-233. [26510] 6. Eyre, F. H., ed. 1980. Forest cover types of the United States and Canada. Washington, DC: Society of American Foresters. 148 p. [905] 7. Frost, Darrel R.
For instance, spadefoot toads may hibernate during the summer (estivation) or until it rains. Cases have been documented in which spadefoot toads have remained in estivation for several years and finally emerged to breed upon heavy rainfall.
ANURA: Pelobatidae (Spadefoot Toads) Common Name Scientific Name Distribution
Eastern Spadefoot*
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They celebrate an awakened and refreshed community of life—including, example, amphibians such as the Spadefoot Toad, crustaceans such as the Fairy Shrimp, and salt-tolerant plants such as the Saltbrush.
Habitat destruction, especially on vernal pools, may impact wood frog populations and the populations of other amphibian, especially the eastern spadefoot toad, which is an endangered species here in Connecticut.
The spadefoot toads, burrowing toads of the family Pelobatidae, are represented in the United States by several species of the genus Scaphiopus. Toads are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Amphibia, order Anura.
 See also: Spadefoot, Toad, Eastern Spadefoot, Burro, Eastern spadefoot toad
  
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