Cuban Small-eared Toad

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Cuban Small-eared Toad
Conservation status
Vulnerable
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Order: Anura Family: Bufonidae Genus: Bufo Species: B. empusus
Binomial name
Bufo empusus (Cope, 1862)

The Cuban Small-eared Toad, Guasabalo, or Sapo De Concha (Bufo empusus) is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family. It is endemic to Cuba. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, intermittent freshwater marshes, and ponds. It is threatened by habitat loss.

[edit] Source

• Hedges, B. & Díaz, L. 2004. Bufo empusus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 21 July 2007.