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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 13h

Our friend the Hurter's Spadefoot Toad lives in the south-central U.S. and possibly in some areas of northern Mexico! They are named after the Swiss-American naturalist Julius Hurter! Like all spadefoot toads, they spend their time in burrows that they dig with their hind legs! (photo by scincus)

An olive-green toad with a large head, very large eyes, and a downturned mouth that looks like they are frowning! They have mostly smooth skin and appear to be covered in a thin layer of dirt!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 1d

Our friend the Sinaloa Toad is named Incilius mazatlanensis, and is named after the city Mazatlán, which is a Nahuatl word meaning "place of deer"! (photo by Sinaloa Silvestre)

A dark brown toad with three light brown bands running down their back! They have a light brown ridge that runs from their nose and around their eyes, and small bean-shaped parotoid glands!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 2d

I haven't seen any documentation that specifically mentions the use of the unken reflex in Melanophryniscus spectabilis, but it's quite likely! They share the same kind of characteristics of other species in the genus, like their bright belly, that would make it useful for them!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 2d

Our friend Melanophryniscus spectabilis lives in the Santa Catarina and Paraná states of southern Brazil! They are known for their brightly colored patterns and the large lump on the end of their nose! (photo by Alan Hentz)

A black toad with bright orange face and shoulders, small occasional orange patches on their back, and bright red toes and belly! They are covered in lots of large warty bumps and have a very large lump on top of their nose!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 5d

Our friend the Serra Do Araçatuba Flea Toad is another tiny from southern Brazil! They are less than half an inch long when fully grown! They are a member of a genus of toads known as Saddleback Toads, named after a saddle shaped bony patch covering their spine! (photo by Luiz F. Ribeiro)

A tiny orange toad with brownish spots on their side! They have huge black eyes!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 6d

Our friend the Malayan Dwarf Toad is a small, common toad found in a large area including the entire Malay Peninsula and the island of Sumatra! They have been known by many names, such as the Lesser Toad, the Red Small Toad, and the Keel-headed Toad! (photo by Marius Burger)

A small light brown toad with a very dark streak down their back, and many small reddish patches! They have small ridges over each eye, and two small ridges on top of their head! They are covered in lots of bumps! A mosquito is sitting on their back!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 7d

Our friend Rhinella ruizi is a small toad who lives at high altitudes in the tallest mountains of the Colombian Andes! They are named after the Colombian herpetologist Pedro Miguel Ruiz-Carranza! (photo by Gabriel)

A very dark brown toad, somewhat smooth-skinned with a ridge of bumps running down their side and spiky bumps on their hind legs! They have a very long, pointy nose!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 8d

Our friend the Mauritanian Toad is a large toad who lives in northwestern Africa and is also known as the Berber Toad, the Moroccan toad, and the Pantherine Toad! They grow to nearly six inches long! (photo by Samuel Guiraudou)

A light brown toad with dark brown and black panther-like spots! They have very warty skin!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 9d

Our friend the Caucasian Toad lives mostly in the Caucasus area between Russia and Georgia and is a larger, wartier cousin of the European Toad! (photo by Yusuf Bahadır Şahin)

A large brown toad, covered in lots of large warty bumps! They have a wide, dark line that runs from behind their eye and down their parotoid glands!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 13d

Our friend the Canadian Toad likes to spend the winter underground below the frost line, and create small mounds known as mima mounds that can contain hundreds of toads! (photo by Chris O'Donoghue)

A green and brown toad with a cream-colored belly! Their back is covered in lots of large, spiny bumps!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 14d

Our friend Steindachner's Toad lives in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda! (photo by Ewout Knoester)

A greenish brown toad with dark brown markings! They are covered in logs of spiny bumps!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 15d

Our friend the Incachaca Toad lives in Bolivia and was first described as a new species in 1961! Their scientific name Rhinella quechua is named after the indigenous Quechua people of South America! (photo by Teresa Camacho-Badani)

A small olive-green toad with brown markings, a thin stripe down their back, and lots of spiny red bumps on their back! Their sides are also covered in lots of small spiny bumps!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 16d

Our friend the Amboli Tiger Toad is only known from a small area near the village of Amboli in the Western Ghats of India! Females of this species tend to be a muddled brown color, but the males have bright yellow and brown tiger stripes that give them their name! (photo by Avinash Bhagat)

A black toad with bright yellow stripes! Their belly is cream colored! They are covered in lots of tiny warty bumps!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 19d

Our friend the Horned Toad lives in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela! Even though the adults are similar to toads in genus Rhaebo, last year they were separated into their own genus, Adhaerobufo, based on characteristics that are unique to their tadpoles! (photo by Biodiversidad_CAA)

A brown toad with very large crests forming pointed horns over their eyes! They have a slight ridge that proceeds from this crest down their side and to their hind legs! They are somewhat smooth skinned but have spiny bumps along that crest and on their belly!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 20d

Our friend the Central American Gulf Coast Toad can range in color from nearly black, to a reddish brown, to light brown like our friend here! They mostly live in Central America, but their range extends from Costa Rica all the way to central Texas! (photo by Adam Jackson)

A light brown toad, with a somewhat rough looking back but a belly and legs that are covered in lots of spiny bumps! They have ridges that extend from the tip of their nose and over their eyes!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 21d

Our friend the Honduras Rainforest Toad lives in northern Honduras! They are mostly a terrestrial species but sometimes like to climb trees! (photo by Josue Ramos Galdamez)

A brown toad with a light brown stripe running down their side and a thin light brown stripe running down their back! They have somewhat rough looking skin, and their legs are covered in spiny bumps!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 22d

Our friend the Bella Vista Toad lives in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay! They are known for digging deep burrows and spending most of their time underground and sometimes visit the burrows of other toads! (photo by Pedro Garabaya)

A mostly brown toad with a green face and tan colored belly! They are covered in lots of very spiny bumps, each with a black spine in the middle of them! They have a small ridge from their nose, around their eyes, and connected to their parotoid glands!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 23d

Our friend the Damaraland Pygmy Toad is a small toad who lives in the Kaokoveld desert and the Waterberg plateau in northern Namibia! (photo by Kyle Finn)

A small brown toad with light brown and reddish-brown markings! Their parotoid glands are reddish brown! They have very rough skin! Oh yeah, they have their vocal sac inflated to nearly the size of their entire body!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 26d

Our friend the Panamanian Granular Toad is somewhat small compared to other toads in genus Rhinella, only growing to just over two inches long! They live throughout the southern side of Panama! (photo by Wendy Dean)

A brown toad with very rough skin, covered in lots of spiny bumps! Their nose is somewhat upturned and small ridges on their head form a point on the end of their nose!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 27d

Our friend Brachycephalus coloratus was one of the species of toads included in a 2022 study which concluded that they are terrible at jumping because their heads are too small for their inner ears to work correctly! (video by Essner Jr. et al.)

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 28d

Our friend the Linanit Dwarf Toad is only known to live in a single place on Mount Murud in Borneo! Their call sounds like a metallic "ping" that is repeated several times! Ping ping ping ping ping! (photo by Pui Yong Min)

A brown toad sitting on a broad green leaf! They have short, skinny legs and are covered in lots of small warty bumps!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 29d

Our friend the Fenoulhet's Toad is a small toad who lives on rocky outcrops in the grasslands of north-east of South Africa, eastern Swaziland, Zimbabwe, the Caprivi and western Mozambique! They are also known as the Northern Pygmy Toad and only grow to about 1.5 inches long! (photo by Bart Wursten)

A small toad with patches of dark brown and light tan colors, with many reddish-orange spots all over their body! They have a rather rough skin texture!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our friend the Moroccan Midwife Toad lives in northern Morocco in the Rif Mountains and the Middle Atlas Mountains! They are the only North African frog with highly developed parental care, as the male toads carry around fertilized eggs to protect them until they hatch! (photo by Joseph Grosse)

A moist light brown toad covered in small dark brown splotches! They have some reddish spots along their small parotoid glands and down their side! They have somewhat rough looking skin!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · Sep 5

Our friend the Eichwald's Toad is also known as the Talysh Toad! They live in the Talysh and Elburz Mountains in Azerbaijan and northern Iran, along the southern edge of the Caspian Sea! They are named after the Baltic German naturalist Karl Eduard von Eichwald (photo by Parham Beyhaghi)

A very stout brown toad with very thick legs! They are covered in very large warty bumps and have very large parotoid glands! They have very large, webbed hind feet!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · Sep 4

Our friend the Ciremai Bleeding Toad lives near mountain streams and waterfalls found in mountainous areas of the island of Java in Indonesia! They are known as Bleeding Toads because of bright red patches that appear on their hind legs! (photo by Pierre de Chabannes)

A slender brown toad with bright yellow-green markings! Their feet have reddish patches! They are covered in lots of tiny warty bumps!

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