#1933 · 🐸 amphibians

Woodhouse's Toad

🇳🇱 Woodhousepad ·Anaxyrus woodhousii

LCleast concern 🐸 Amphibians 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

Woodhouse's toad ( Anaxyrus woodhousii ) is a medium-sized (4 inches or 10 centimetres) true toad native to the United States and Mexico. There are three recognized subspecies. A. woodhousii tends to hybridize with Anaxyrus americanus where their ranges overlap.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 23,688iNaturalist 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.
23,688 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Charles Frédéric Girard in 1854 (172 years ago).