#1920 · 🐸 amphibians

Asian Common Toad

🇳🇱 Lijstenpad ·Duttaphrynus melanostictus

LCleast concern 🐸 Amphibians 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Dr. Chinmay kishor Pathak · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © 藜梓柠 · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © hollythefrog · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Shainy · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Deny Wahyudi · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © NAZRUL ISLAM NABIL · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Dhruva Punde · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Duttaphrynus melanostictus is commonly called Asian common toad , Asian black-spined toad , Asian toad , black-spectacled toad , common Sunda toad and Javanese toad . It is probably a complex of more than one true toad species that is widely distributed in South and Southeast Asia.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 44,075iNaturalist 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.
44,075 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider in 1799 (227 years ago).