Western Giant Toad | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Bufonidae |
Genus: | Bufo |
Species: | B. fustiger |
Binomial name | |
Bufo fustiger Schwartz, 1960 |
The Western Giant Toad (Bufo fustiger) is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family that is endemic to Cuba. Its natural habitats are lowland subtropical or tropical moist forests, dry savanna, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, plantations, rural gardens, and heavily degraded former forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.