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Bufo bufo 2 (2005 07 11)🐸

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SpeciesAnuraBufonidae
Amphibians

🐸Common toad

Bufo bufo (Linnaeus, 1758)

Die Erdkröte (Bufo bufo) ist ein häufiger und im paläarktischen Raum weit verbreiteter Froschlurch aus der Gattung der Echten Kröten innerhalb der Familie der Kröten (Bufonidae). Nach heutiger Auffassung handelt es sich wahrscheinlich nicht um eine einheitliche biologische Art, sondern um einen Komplex mehrerer Taxa, deren genaue systematische Stellung und Abgrenzung derzeit unklar ist. In der Erstbeschreibung nannte Carl von Linné die Art zunächst Rana bufo, ordnete sie also als „Frosch“ in der Gattung Rana ein. Die Erdkröte wurde von der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde (DGHT) zum Lurch des Jahres 2012 gekürt.

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

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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

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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.
In other languages
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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