Southwest Reptiles and Amphibians
Anaxyrus punctatus - Red-spotted Toad
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Adult, Santa Cruz County, Arizona |
Adult, Pima County, Arizona |
Adult, Pima County, Arizona |
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Underside of adult, Pima County, Arizona |
Recently-metamorphosed juvenile, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. |
Recently-metamorphosed juvenile, Washington County, Utah |
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Adult male calling at night, sitting on a mat of vegetation on a small pond in San Diego County |
Adult male calling at night, San Diego County |
Male and female in amplexus, with eggs on bottom of pool, San Bernardino County © Todd Battey |
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Red-spotted Toads lay their eggs singly or in a small cluster. Other North American toads lay their eggs in strings. |
Two small egg clusters on aquatic vegetation at the surface of a small pool in a desert wash in Yavapai County, Arizona. | Eggs, San Bernardino County © Todd Battey |
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Tadpole, Riverside County |
Tadpole, Riverside County |
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Habitat and breeding pool, a small creek in the Pajarito Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona.
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Habitat, Yavapai County, Arizona | Habitat, Yavapai County, Arizona |
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Habitat, Washington County, Utah |
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A male Red-spotted Toad calls at night in San Diego County. California Treefrogs are calling in the background. |
Tiny toadlets still transforming from tadpoles crawl around on a mat of algae in a desert pond in San Diego County. |
Red-spotted Toad tadpoles in a small desert pond in San Diego County. |
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| Several calling male Red-spotted toads at night in a desert creekbed in Yavapai County, Arizona, refuse to call while the camera lights are on them. | ||
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