🐸Golden toad
The golden toad is an extinct species of true toad that was once abundant in a small, high-altitude region of about 4 square kilometres (1.5 mi2) in an area north of the city of Monteverde, Costa Rica. It was endemic to elfin cloud forest. Also called the Monte Verde toad, Alajuela toad and orange toad, it is commonly considered the "poster child" for the amphibian decline crisis. This toad was first described in 1966 by herpetologist Jay Savage. The last sighting of a single male golden toad was on 15 May 1989, and it has since been classified as extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The golden toad was declared extinct by the IUCN Red List in 2004.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.
- Body mass
- not recorded
- Body length
- 0.06 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
This animal is extinct
Assessed Extinct on the IUCN Red List, 2020. Everything on this page — the measurements, the photos, the videos — is a record of an animal that is gone.
Everything we know about the Golden toad
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body length0.06 mAmphiBIODetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0
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Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAmphibia
- ›orderAnura
- ›familyBufonidae
- ›genusIncilius
- ›speciesIncilius periglenes
- classAmphibians · Amphibia
- orderFrogs & toads · Anura
- familyBufonidae
- genusIncilius
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classAmphibians · Amphibia
- superorderBatrachia
- orderFrogs & toads · Anura
- suborderNeobatrachia
- familyBufonidae
- genusIncilius
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