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TOAD, GIANT SONORAN (Bufo alvarius) (8 2 10) YARD, WEST OF PATAGONIA, Santa Cruz Co, AZ 01 (4858973908)🐸

Photo: ALAN SCHMIERER · CC0

SpeciesAnuraBufonidae
Amphibians

🐸Colorado River toad

Incilius alvarius (Girard, 1859)

Колорадската крастава жаба (Incilius alvarius) е вид земноводно от семейство Крастави жаби (Bufonidae).

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 1/260th of your weight
Also called
Incilius alvarius, Colorado River Toad Sonoran Desert Toad
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.24 kg
Body length
0.17 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
15 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Colorado River toad

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

Body mass
0.24 kg
AmphiBIO
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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Body length
0.17 m
AmphiBIO
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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
15 yearsrecord 15 years · AmphiBIO
AnAge
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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

Litter size
about 7750
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

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

Volume l
0.2 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 Colorado River toad yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAmphibia
  4. ›orderAnura
  5. ›familyBufonidae
  6. ›genusIncilius
  7. ›speciesIncilius alvarius
Full lineage
  1. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  2. orderFrogs & toads · Anura
  3. familyBufonidae
  4. genusIncilius
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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. genusIncilius
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In other languages
Incilius alvarius (sv), Coloradokröte (de), Incilius alvarius (it), Incilius alvarius (es), Incilius alvarius (fr), Колорадска крастава жаба (bg) … and 16 more languages
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Bufo alvarius coloradokröteBufo alvarius1TOAD, GIANT SONORAN (Bufo alvarius) (8 2 10) YARD, WEST OF PATAGONIA, Santa Cruz Co, AZ 01 (4858973908)
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