

Little Green Toad. Sonoran Toad. Green 



Toad. Sonora Toad. 



Plate XVII. I. Female 

 (Xi). 2. Male croaking (xf). 

 3. Male (xf). 4, 5. Females 

 (Xf). 6. Female (xi). 



Bufo debilis Girard. 



Range: Colorado and Kan- 

 sas south through New 

 Mexico and Texas into north- 

 ern half of Mexico. 



Habitat: They are found 

 on grassy mesquite flats, 

 breeding in temporary rain 

 pools, ditches or shallow pools 

 in streams of intermittent 

 flow. 



Size: Adults, 1-1 4/5 

 inches. (Males, 26-41 mm. 

 Females, 31.5-46 mm.). 



General appearance: This 

 beautiful little green toad 

 has black spots on the back 

 and some gold or yellow 

 tipped tubercles on the sides 

 and legs. The legs have a few 

 dark bar-like spots with light 

 central areas. The legs are 

 short, the snout pointed, the 

 parotoids large and elongate 

 or triangular, the body nar- 

 row and rounded in contour, 

 the head narrow with in- 

 terorbital space proportion- 

 ally wide. There is a black 

 bar at the arm insertion and 

 there may be a black line, or 

 two or three spots in the 

 middle of the lower breast. 



Structure: Crown without 

 bony ridges; snout protrud- 

 ing; first finger shorter than 

 second; hind legs usually 

 shorter than body length; 



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