Anaxyrus debilis

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Green Toad

Western Green Toad, Bufo debilis insidior

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Bufonidae
Genus:	Bufo
Species:	B. debilis

Binomial name

Bufo debilis
Girard, 1836

Synonyms

Anaxyrus debilis

Anaxyrus debilis is a synonym for Bufo debilis, the Green Toad. The Green Toad (Bufo debilis) is a species of toad found in the Southwestern United States in the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas and Texas, as well as in northern Mexico in the states of Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Durango, and Zacatecas.

Green toads are typically a green or yellow in color with black spotting and a cream colored underside. They are not a large toad, growing to 2 inches in length. They are nocturnal, and only readily found during and immediately after periods of rainfall, their habitat is semi-arid and often very dry. Breeding occurs throughout the spring, summer and autumn months. Whenever conditions are favorable, males will call to the females from a pool of water suitable for laying eggs in.

[edit] Subspecies

Sources disagree whether the subspecies each deserve full species status.

Eastern Green Toad, Bufo debilis debilis
Western Green Toad, Bufo debilis insidior

[edit] See also

European Green Toad (Bufo viridis), a species which is only distantly related, but shares the same common name.

[edit] References

Pauly, G. B., D. M. Hillis, and D. C. Cannatella. (2004) The history of a Nearctic colonization: Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the Nearctic toads (Bufo). Evolution 58: 2517–2535.
Hammerson & Santos-Barrera (2004). Bufo debilis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006. Database entry includes a range map and a brief justification of why this species is of least concern
Amphibian Species of the World: Bufo debilis