Hurter's Spadefoot Toad

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Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Suborder:	Mesobatrachia
Family:	Scaphiopodidae
Genus:	Scaphiopus
Species:	S. hurterii

Binomial name

Scaphiopus hurterii
Strecker, 1910

Hurter's Spadefoot Toad (Scaphiopus hurteri) is a species of spadefoot toad found in the south central United States (Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma) and northern Mexico. It was once classified as a subspecies of the eastern spadefoot toad, (Scaphiopus holbrookii) but it has been granted its own species status. The epithet hurterii is in honor of the Swiss-American naturalist and curator of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences, Julius Hurter.

[edit] References

Hammerson (2004). Scaphiopus hurterii. 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