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Green toad
Western green toad, Anaxyrus debilis insidior
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Bufonidae
Genus:	Anaxyrus
Species:	A. debilis
Binomial name
Anaxyrus debilis Girard, 1854
Synonyms
Bufo debilis

Anaxyrus debilis, also classified as Bufo debilis, is a species of toad found in the Southwestern United States in the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas and Texas, as well as in northern Mexico in the states of Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Durango and Zacatecas. Its common name is the green toad.

Green toads are typically a green or yellow in color with black spotting and a cream colored underside. They are not a large toad, growing to 2 inches in length. They are nocturnal and secretive, and only readily found during and immediately after periods of rainfall, their habitat is semi-arid and often very dry. Breeding occurs throughout the spring, summer and autumn months. Whenever conditions are favorable, males will call to the females from a pool of water suitable for laying eggs in.

[edit]Subspecies

Sources^[who?] disagree whether the subspecies each deserve full species status.

• Eastern green toad, Bufo debilis debilis—Smith, 1950


• Western green toad, Bufo debilis insidior—Smith, 1950

[edit]See also

• European green toad (Bufo viridis), a species which is only distantly related, but shares the same common name.

[edit]References

• Pauly, G. B., D. M. Hillis, and D. C. Cannatella. (2004) The history of a Nearctic colonization: Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the Nearctic toads (Bufo). Evolution 58: 2517–2535.


• Hammerson & Santos-Barrera (2004). Bufo debilis. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 12 May 2006. Database entry includes a range map and a brief justification of why this species is of least concern


• Amphibian Species of the World: Bufo debilis

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