Toad Facts

A greenish black toad with large, widely spaced warty bumps on their back, perched on a stick! The warty bumps are brown in color, as is the top of their head, their large parotoid glands, and the back sides of their legs!

Our friend the Udzungwa Glandular Tree Toad was first described as a new species just a few months ago! Like other toads in genus Nectophrynoides, they do not lay eggs and instead give birth to fully developed toadlets! (photo by John Lyakurwa)

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A tan colored toad with irregular green splotches, sitting in shallow running water! Their back is covered in lots of large warty bumps and they have very large, oblong parotoid glands!

Our friend the Eastern Persian Toad is also known as the Central Asian Toad and the Oblong Toad! They are a tetraploid species, with four chromosomes, believed to have originated from crossbreeding between the Ladakh Toad and the Turan Toad! (photo by Faezeh Fatemizadeh)

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A bright green, smooth skinned toad with a wide yellow band down their side! In the yellow band is a jagged black line that breaks up into spots further down their side!

Our friend the Huila Stubfoot Toad lives in Columbia but has seen a huge decline in the wild. They were once believed to be extinct, but in 2006 a population was found in a remote area! (photo by Mark B. Robbins)

A small black toad, covered in lots of small warty bumps! They have small yellowish spots on their belly near their front and rear legs!

Our friend Darwin's Blackish Toad lives in the Tandilia Mountain System of Argentina! They have a call that sounds like "tick tick tick tick trrrrrrrrrr" that you can hear here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW_1... (photo by Blas Miguens)

A brown toad with a creamy white belly sitting in bright green grass! They have dark brown warty spots on their back and a thin light brown line running from the tip of their nose and down their back!

Our friend the Cape Sand Toad is also known as the Narrow-headed Toad and lives in a large area around Cape Town, South Africa! Males of this species are known to have unusually large testes! (photo by Jody Barends)

A large, plump, brown toad covered in lots of spiny bumps! Even though they are rather large, they are very compact looking compared to many other toads! They have very large parotoid glands and visible eardrums!

Our friend Sclerophrys Regularis is a widespread toad with many common names, but our favorite is the African Bouncing Toad! When threatened, they often bounce around to scare or confuse predators! (photo by abotto)

A bright green toad with light brown splotches and a cream-colored belly! They are covered in lots of tiny, spiny bumps!

Our friend the Everett's Asian Tree Toad is also known as the Marbled Tree Toad, due to their striking coloring! They live in Malaysia, Brunei, and Indonesia on the island of Borneo! They spend a lot of time in trees and grow to nearly four inches long! (photo by Marius Burger)

A small brown toad sitting on a dry brown leaf! The toad is covered in lots of small warty bumps! They have patches of red on their front and rear legs!

Our friend the Beddome's Toad is a small toad known to live in a few small areas in the southern Western Ghats of India! They are also known as the Agastyamalai True Toad! (photo by P. S. Sivaprasad)

This one is Bufotes sitibundus! They are related to the rather common European Green Toad!

A moist, slender, rough-skinned brown toad perched on a wide, ridged leaf!

Our friend the Kinabalu Slender Toad is named after Mount Kinbalu in western Sabah in Malaysia, the largest mountain on the island of Borneo! (photo by James Hunt)

A tan colored toad with lots of irregular green splotches!

Our friend the Variable Toad can be found in a large area stretching between Israel and central Russia! They live in a wide variety of habitats, and sometimes even benefit from human encroachment which pushes other amphibians away! (photo by Kseniia Marianna Prondzynska)

A toad sitting in shallow running water! They have very, very bumpy skin and a bright yellow-orange patch on their chin and belly!

Our friend the Apennine Yellow-bellied Toad lives in southern Italy! They only lay a few eggs at a time but are believed to breed several times a year! They also have heart-shaped pupils! A great toad for Valentine's Day! (photo by Giacomo Gola)

We mention them from time to time! They are sure to come up again!

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A rough-skinned brown toad sitting on moist pebbles! They are covered in widely spaced spiny bumps and have a crest from the tip of their nose, over their eyes, and connecting to their large parotoid glands! The crest gets very large near the parotoid glands and is nearly the size of the glands themselves!

Our friend the Sulawesian Toad is a welcome sight on the cacao plantations of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi because they love to eat invasive yellow crazy ants! (photo by Muhammad Idris)

A very stout, tan colored toad covered in dark green and light green splotches! They are covered in lots of small spiny bumps!

Our friend the Great Plains Toad is a very common toad who lives in a large area from the Canadian Prairies through the Great Plains of the United States and into northern Mexico! They are a large toad, growing to 4.5 inches long! (photo by Jeremiah Degenhardt)

We are so happy our friend made it to the Super Bowl!

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A stout, tan-colored toad with very rough skin! They are covered in lots of spiky bumps and have a large ridge running from the tip of their pointy nose and around their eyes! They have rather green eyes with a horizontal pupil!

Our friend the Hispaniolan Armored Toad was first described in 2018 and is only known from a single location in the Dominican Republic! Their skin is very rough and bumpy, and they have prominent armored ridges on their head, giving them their name! (photo by Judá Isaí Martínez Uribe)

A yellow-green toad with widely spaced warty bumps, each of which has a black ring around the edge!

They are not, but the California Toad, Anaxyrus boreas halophilus, sometimes has similar coloration!

Sapo Concho, an anthropomorphic Puerto Rican Crested Toad, sitting on the edge of an expanded metal table, wearing tiny grey coveralls! He is eating a quesito, a Puerto Rican pastry made with puff pastry and sweetened cream cheese! Still taken from BAD BUNNY - DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS (Short Film) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLSzEYVDads

A real-life Puerto Rican Crested Toad, Peltophryne lemur! A rough-skinned yellow toad with small black markings on the tops of each of their warty looking spots! They have a prominent crest that runs from the tip of their upturned nose across the tops of their eyes!

In 2025 the Puerto Rican music artist Bad Bunny released an album named DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS! Videos for this album featured a character named Sapo Concho, named after the real life Sapo Concho, the endangered Puerto Rican Crested Toad!

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A very very plump toad! They are light green on their back with lots of small black splotches, and creamy white on their belly!

Our friend the North American Green Toad lives in a large area between northern Mexico and the south-central United States! They are also known as the Chihuahuan Green Toad! They have two recognized subspecies, the Eastern Green Toad and the Western Green Toad! (photo by Jorden Perrett)

They both hop away and leave the eggs to fend for themselves!

A small brown toad with dark brown splotches sitting on a large rock! They have a somewhat large head relative to their size, large eyes, and are covered in lots of round, warty bumps!

Our friend Lau's Leaf Litter Toad lives in Hong Kong and is known to perform sex-reversed inguinal amplexus, where the female mounts the male from behind and holds his waist while laying her eggs! (photo by C.H.Leung)

A small tan colored toad covered in small black splotches! Each splotch contains red warty bumps! They are rather stout and have small oval-shaped parotoid glands!

Our friend the Dixie Valley Toad lives in a small area of wetlands in the Dixie Valley in northern Nevada! They were first described as a new species in 2017 and immediately placed on the endangered species list to protect their home, which is under threat due to development! (photo by Yinan Li)

A grey toad with mottled greenish brown markings! They have large eyes with vertical pupils! They have a clutch of eggs between their hind legs!

Our friend the Betic Midwife Toad lives in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of southern Spain! Like other midwife toads, males collect fertilized eggs and wrap them around their hind legs to keep them safe until they are ready to hatch! (photo by Víctor González García)

A rough-skinned brown toad with very stout front and rear legs! They are sitting on bright green moss!

Our friend the São Bento Toad is a common toad who lives in the Atlantic rainforests of the states of Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil! (photo by Mathias Hofstatter)

A smooth-skinned brown toad with a somewhat long nose and a cream-colored belly!

There is! The Cuban Long-nosed Toad is a very rare toad only known from three widely separated populations in Cuba! They are also known as Stejneger's Caribbean Toad!

There are many toads with much longer noses though, such as some in the genus Rhinella, the beaked toads!

A rough-skinned brown toad! They have small markings of lighter brown color all over their body! Their nose does not appear to be particularly short, despite their name!

Our friend the Short-nosed Toad lives in the state of Karnataka in the Western Ghats of India! They are also known as the Kempholey Toad and Rao's Pale Brown Toad! (photo by Girish Gowda)

They are actually very common in the Southeastern United States! They are nocturnal and spend a lot of their time underground though, so it's not uncommon for people to not notice them! They have a neat sheep-like call that you might hear during breeding season!

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