Marine Toad. Giant Toad. 



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Plate XX. I, 1. Male 

 (X*). 3, 4- Male (Xi). 



Bufo marinus (Linne). 



Range: From Southern So- 

 nora to Tamaulipas in 

 Mexico to Patagonia. Intro- 

 duced into Porto Rico and 

 Jamaica and several smaller 

 West Indian islands. Found 

 August 20, 1 93 1 by Dr. E. H. 

 Taylor and Mr. J. S. Wright 

 at Zapata, Texas. 



Habitat: This toad lives 

 along roadsides, about gar- 

 dens, or on the edges of 

 swamps and woods. It seeks 

 cover under boards, stones, 

 logs, or in burrows in soft 

 earth. 



Size: Many of the larger 

 ones are from 5 3/5-6 4/5 

 inches (140-170 mm.), but in 

 South America some reach 

 8 4/5 inches (220 mm.). 



General appearance: This is 

 an enormous toad with an 

 immense triangular pitted 

 parotoid. The forward side of 

 this triangular gland is just 

 back of the tympanum, the 

 base starts just back of the 

 angle of the jaw and slants 

 slightly upward to meet the 

 very oblique or slanting upper 

 side at a point well back on 

 the side of the body. From 

 this point a row or fold of 

 large blunt rounded brown- 

 tipped warts extends 2/3 to 

 3/4 of the way to the groin. 

 From Bufo va//iceps, it may 

 be distinguished by its very 



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