#1957 · 🐸 amphibians
Couch's Spadefoot
🇳🇱 Zuidelijke woelpad ·Scaphiopus couchii
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Jason K. · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Gerry Salmon · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Nick Tobler (Cowturtle) · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © James Bailey · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © James Bailey · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Jon McIntyre · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Nick Tobler (Cowturtle) · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © coyote4609 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Bridget Spencer · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Couch's spadefoot toad or Couch's spadefoot ( Scaphiopus couchii ) is a species of North American spadefoot toad (family Scaphiopodidae). The specific epithet couchii is in honor of American naturalist Darius Nash Couch, who collected the first specimen while on a personal expedition to northern Mexico to collect plant, mineral, and animal specimens for the Smithsonian Institution.
base stats
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.
- 9,690 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Spencer Fullerton Baird in 1854 (172 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Couch's Spadefoot
- Nederlands
- Zuidelijke woelpad
- scientific name
- Scaphiopus couchii
- class
- Amphibia
- order
- Anura
- family
- Scaphiopodidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 9,690
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1854 by Spencer Fullerton Baird
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Scaphiopodidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 26691, Wikidata Q504971, GBIF 2429795, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.