🐸Colorado River toad
Die Coloradokröte (Incilius alvarius, Syn. Bufo alvarius), auch Sonora-Wüstenkröte genannt, ist eine Amphibienart aus der Familie der Kröten (Bufonidae). Sie kommt in der Sonora-Wüste im Südwesten der USA sowie in den Halbwüsten im Nordwesten Mexikos vor. Sie ist bislang die einzig bekannte Krötenart, die das starke Halluzinogen 5-MeO-DMT in ihren Hautdrüsen produziert.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
- 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
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 mass0.24 kgAmphiBIODetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0
Body length0.17 mAmphiBIODetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0
Maximum lifespan15 yearsrecord 15 years · AmphiBIOAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Litter sizeabout 7750AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
DietarthropodsAmphiBIODetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0
Volume l0.2 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAmphibia
- ›orderAnura
- ›familyBufonidae
- ›genusIncilius
- ›speciesIncilius alvarius
- classAmphibians · Amphibia
- orderFrogs & toads · Anura
- familyBufonidae
- genusIncilius
All 13 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classAmphibians · Amphibia
- superorderBatrachia
- orderFrogs & toads · Anura
- suborderNeobatrachia
- familyBufonidae
- genusIncilius
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