Woodhouse's Toad

Woodhouse's Toad

Taxobox
name = Woodhouse's Toad
status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref =


image_size = 240px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Amphibia
ordo = Anura
familia = Bufonidae
genus = "Bufo"
species = "B. woodhousii"
binomial = "Bufo woodhousii"
binomial_authority = Girard, 1854
range_

range_map_width = 240px
range_map_caption = United States habitat range of B. woodhousii
synonyms = "Anaxyrus woodhouseii"
Frost, et al, 2006

The Woodhouse's Toad, ("Bufo woodhousii") is a moderate sized (convert|4|in|cm|0|disp=slash) true toad 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. [http://ebeltz.net/herps/biogappx.html] "B. woodhousii" tends to hybridize with "Bufo americanus" in their overlapping ranges.

Subspecies

*Southern Woodhouse's Toad, "Bufo woodhousii australis" (Shannon & Lowe, 1955)
*Rocky Mountain Toad, "Bufo woodhousii woodhousii" (Girard, 1854)

References

* (2004) The history of a Nearctic colonization: Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the Nearctic toads ("Bufo"). "Evolution" "58": 2517–2535.
* Database entry includes a range map and justification for why this species is of least concern
* [http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/herps/amphibid/species/bwood.htm USGS: Woodhouse's Toad]
*ITIS|ID=173476|taxon=Bufo woodhousii|year=2006|date=1 May

External links

*eol|16980072
* [http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?stat=BROWSE&query_src=photos_fauna_sci-Amphibian&where-lifeform=Amphibian&where-taxon=Bufo+woodhousii&title_tag=Bufo+woodhousii Bufo woodhousii] at CalPhotos


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