#1943 · 🐸 amphibians

Red-spotted Toad

🇳🇱 Roodgestipte Pad ·Anaxyrus punctatus

LCleast concern 🐸 Amphibians 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © bryanto · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Bradford Hollingsworth · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © 1999 California Academy of Sciences · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © 2011 Todd Pierson · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © John Sullivan · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Snow Canyon, Saint George, UT, US:© randaynsmoore · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. La Paz, B.C.S., México:© Nohel Alfredo Martínez Armendares · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Riverside County, CA, USA:© Tony Iwane · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Texas, US:© coramcan · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. santiago, baja california sur:© Jesus Gordolomi Butterball RC · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The red-spotted toad ( Anaxyrus punctatus , formerly Bufo punctatus ) is a toad in the family Bufonidae found in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 12,820iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
12,820 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Spencer Fullerton Baird in 1852 (174 years ago).