#1894 · 🐸 amphibians

Caucasian Toad

🇳🇱 Caucasian toad ·Bufo verrucosissimus

LCleast concern 🐸 Amphibians 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky) · CC BY 4.0
2. © Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky) · CC BY 4.0
3. © Eugene Popov · CC BY 4.0
4. © Andrii Rusnak · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Gelendzhik gorsovet, RU-KD, RU:© Krylenko VV · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Krasnodar, RU:© Светлана Медведева · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. South Ossetia, Tskhinvali District, Grom Village:© Alexander A. Fomichev · CC BY 4.0
8. Krasnodar, RU:© w_shakhparonov · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Samtskhe-Javakheti, Georgia:© Edouard Veuillet · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. XC24+MQ9, Нуниси, Грузия:© Nikita Tiunov · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

The Caucasian toad ( Bufo verrucosissimus ) is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It is found in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russia, and Turkey. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, intermittent rivers, rural gardens, ponds, and aquaculture ponds. It is threatened by habitat loss.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 488iNaturalist 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.
488 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1814 (212 years ago).