Hurter's Spadefoot Toad

Hurter's Spadefoot Toad

Taxobox
name = Hurter's Spadefoot Toad
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
trend = stable
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Amphibia
ordo = Anura
subordo = Mesobatrachia
familia = Scaphiopodidae
genus = "Scaphiopus"
species = "S. hurterii"
binomial = "Scaphiopus hurterii"
binomial_authority = Strecker, 1910

Hurter's Spadefoot Toad ("Scaphiopus hurteri") is a species of spadefoot toad found in the south central United States (Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma) and northern Mexico. It was once classified as a subspecies of the eastern spadefoot toad, ("Scaphiopus holbrookii") but it has been granted its own species status. The epithet "hurterii" is in honor of the Swiss-American naturalist and curator of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences, Julius Hurter.

References

* Database entry includes a range map and a brief justification of why this species is of least concern


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