Southern Spadefoot. Couch's Spadefoot. Rain 



Toad. Sonoran Spade- 

 foot. Sonora Spadefoot 

 (rectifrenis). Cape St. 

 Lucas Spadefoot (varius). 



Plate VI. i, 6. Males 

 (X|). 2. Male (x§). 3. Female 

 (x|). 4. Male croaking (xi). 

 5. Eggs (x|). 



Scaphiopus couchii Baird. 



Range: Texas to Arizona 

 and Utah, northern Mexico 

 and Lower California. 



Habitat: They live in sub- 

 terranean burrows, often 

 under logs or similar shelter, 

 and are nocturnal in habit. 

 They breed in temporary 

 pools, coming out only after 

 heavy rains. 



Size: Adults, 1 7/8- 3 1/5 

 inches. (Males, 48-70 mm. 

 Females, 50-80 mm.). 



General appearance: The 

 short, fat toad-like body has 

 the back greenish, more or less 

 marbled with light, a dark 

 line extending backward from 

 each eye, which may soon 

 join other dark lines or areas. 

 The skin is roughly tubercu- 

 late, with many light tuber- 

 cles on the sides. Both the 

 ear and parotoid glands are 

 indistinct. The eyes are large 

 and protuberant with vertical 

 pupils. The venter is whitish; 

 the fingers and toes light, and 

 the rear of the arm and leg 

 with a light band. The outer 

 sole tubercle and sometimes 

 the tips of fingers and toes 

 are dark. 



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