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Adult Cane toad🐸

Photo: brian.gratwicke · CC BY 2.0

SpeciesAnuraBufonidae
Amphibians

🐸Cane toad

Rhinella marina (Linnaeus, 1758)

The cane toad, also known as the giant neotropical toad or marine toad, is a large, terrestrial true toad native to South and mainland Central America, but which has been introduced to various islands throughout Oceania and the Caribbean, as well as Northern Australia. It is a member of the genus Rhinella, which includes many true toad species found throughout Central and South America, but it was formerly assigned to the genus Bufo.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Videos
3
Photos
2
Measurements
8
vs you
≈ 1/580th of your weight
Also called
Agua Toad, Giant Marine Toad, Giant Toad, Marine Toad, Shoulder-knot Frog
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2023.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.11 kg
Body length
0.24 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
25 years
All measurements ↓
Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Cane toad

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

Body mass
0.11 kg
AnAge
Other figures ↓

data quality: acceptable

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

Figures vary

  • 0.11 kgAmphiBIOv1 (Oliveira et al. 2017)
Body length
0.24 m
AmphiBIO
Other figures ↓

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

Figures vary

  • 0.23 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Maximum lifespan
25 yearsrecord 25 years · AmphiBIO
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

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

Gestation
2 days
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

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

Litter size
about 10000
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

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

Diet
arthropods, vertebrates
AmphiBIO
Details ↓

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

Danger to humans
other
SeaLifeBase
Details ↓

Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
0.1 Laverage
Details ↓

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 Cane toad yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAmphibia
  4. ›orderAnura
  5. ›familyBufonidae
  6. ›genusRhinella
  7. ›speciesRhinella marina
Full lineage
  1. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  2. orderFrogs & toads · Anura
  3. familyBufonidae
  4. genusRhinella
All 13 branches ↓
  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. genusRhinella
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More about the Cane toad

Closest relative on this site
🐸 Golden toad — last shared an ancestor ≈ 38 million years ago.
In other languages
Rhinella marina (fr), Aga-Kröte (de), Rhinella marina (es), 海蟾蜍 (zh), Aga (pl), קרפדת קנים (he) … and 22 more languages
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Adult Cane toadAgaa fg02
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