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Bufo bufo 2 (2005 07 11)🐸

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SpeciesAnuraBufonidae
Amphibians

🐸Common toad

Bufo bufo (Linnaeus, 1758)

Skrubtudsen (Bufo bufo) er en tudse-art der findes i det meste af Europa (med undtagelse af Irland, Island og nogle øer i Middelhavet), i den vestlige del af Nord-Asien, og i en lille del af det nordvestlige Afrika. Skrubtudsen er almindelig i Danmark og findes i det meste af landet, dog mangler den på enkelte øer som Anholt, Bågø, Endelave, Femø, Læsø, Saltholm og Sejerø. Skrubtudsen kendes på dens mere eller mindre ensfarvet brune hud og kobberfarvede øjne. Skrubtudsen yngler oftest sidst i april måned. Dens æg er let genkendelige, da hunnen lægger dem i lange snore i søer og moser, mens hannen sidder på ryggen og gyder. Skrubtudser overvintrer på land under bladdynger og lignende. De kan godt lide snegle – og er dermed nyttedyr for haveejere. Skrubtudsen er giftig, så hvis man skal spise den, bør man undgå huden og kun tage indvoldene. Ligeledes er det med dens haletudser, som fisk kan dø af. Skrubtudsen er fredet ligesom alle andre danske padder.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2023.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.16 kg
Body length
0.15 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
40 years
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Everything we know about the Common toad

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
40 yearsrecord 40 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

Diet
arthropods
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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 Common toad yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAmphibia
  4. ›orderAnura
  5. ›familyBufonidae
  6. ›genusBufo
  7. ›speciesBufo bufo
Full lineage
  1. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  2. orderFrogs & toads · Anura
  3. familyBufonidae
  4. genusBufo
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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. genusBufo
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Closest relative on this site
🐸 Cane toad — last shared an ancestor ≈ 67 million years ago.
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Erdkröte (de), кафява крастава жаба (bg), gripau comú (ca), ropucha obecná (cs), Skrubtudse (da), Bufo bufo (es) … and 26 more languages
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Bufo bufo 2 (2005 07 11)A curious toad1Au1200kroetebufobufo2018c85
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