#1985 · 🐸 amphibians

Asiatic Toad

🇳🇱 Aziatische pad ·Bufo gargarizans

LCleast concern 🐸 Amphibians 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The Asiatic toad or Chusan Island toad ( Bufo gargarizans ) is a species of toad endemic to East Asia. It is common in China (specifically Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guizhou, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Inner Mongolia, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, and Zhejiang) and portions of the Russian Far East (up north to the Amur River valley and on Sakhalin Island, and east to Transbaikalia in Siberia), but relatively rare on the Korean Peninsula....

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,459iNaturalist 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.
6,459 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Theodore Edward Cantor in 1842 (184 years ago).