#1860 · 🐸 amphibians

Spiny Toad

🇳🇱 Iberische Gewone Pad ·Bufo spinosus

LCleast concern 🐸 Amphibians 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Álvaro Alemany · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Gerard · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Daniel Eugenio Pérez Garrido · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Eliot Stein-Deffarges J. · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Borja Fierro-Leva · CC BY 4.0
6. © Laurent Lebois © · CC BY 4.0
7. © Rodrigo Bustos Gil · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The common toad , European toad , or in Anglophone parts of Europe, simply the toad ( Bufo bufo , from Latin bufo "toad"), is an amphibian found throughout most of Europe (with the exception of Ireland, Iceland, and some Mediterranean islands), in the western part of North Asia, and in a small portion of Northwest Africa. It is one of a group of closely related animals that are descended from a common ancestral line of toads and which form...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 22,913iNaturalist 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.
22,913 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by François Marie Daudin in 1803 (223 years ago).