| Woodhouse's Toad | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Bufonidae |
| Genus: | Bufo |
| Species: | B. woodhousii |
| Binomial name | |
| Bufo woodhousii Girard, 1854 |
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| United States habitat range of B. woodhousii | |
| Synonyms | |
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Anaxyrus woodhouseii |
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The Woodhouse's Toad, (Bufo woodhousii) is a medium-sized (4 inches / 10 centimetres) true toad, which is native to the United States and Mexico. There are two recognized subspecies. The epithet woodhousii is in honor of the American physician and naturalist Samuel Washington Woodhouse.[1] B. woodhousii tends to hybridize with Bufo americanus in their overlapping ranges.