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Bufo americanus PJC1🐸

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SpeciesAnuraBufonidae
Amphibians

🐸American toad

Anaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836)

Американската крастава жаба (Anaxyrus americanus) е вид земноводно от семейство Крастави жаби (Bufonidae).

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Measurements
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≈ 1/2,850th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.02 kg
Body length
0.11 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
36 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the American toad

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.02 kg
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Figures vary

  • 0.12 kgAmphiBIOv1 (Oliveira et al. 2017)
Body length
0.11 m
AmphiBIO
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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
36 yearsrecord 36 years · AmphiBIO
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
8 days
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 6000
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Diet
arthropods, fruit
AmphiBIO
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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for American toad yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAmphibia
  4. ›orderAnura
  5. ›familyBufonidae
  6. ›genusAnaxyrus
  7. ›speciesAnaxyrus americanus
Full lineage
  1. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  2. orderFrogs & toads · Anura
  3. familyBufonidae
  4. genusAnaxyrus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  9. superorderBatrachia
  10. orderFrogs & toads · Anura
  11. suborderNeobatrachia
  12. familyBufonidae
  13. genusAnaxyrus
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Американская жаба (ru), Anaxyrus americanus (fr), 美國蟾蜍 (zh), Bufo americanus (pt), Bufo americanus (it), Anaxyrus americanus (sv) … and 13 more languages
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Bufo americanus PJC1Anaxyrus americanus (Stanton 1)Anaxyrus americanus (Stanton 2)
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