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Bufo bufo 2 (2005 07 11)🐸

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SpeciesAnuraBufonidae
Amphibians

🐸Common toad

Bufo bufo (Linnaeus, 1758)

Ропуха звичайна, ропуха сіра (Bufo bufo) — вид земноводних родини ропухових (Bufonidae). Один із 3 видів роду у фауні України. Поширений в Європі, ряді регіонів Азії та Північної Африки. Мешканець зволожених лісових і відкритих ландшафтів. Занесений до Бернської конвенції та ряду інших природоохоронних документів.. Отруйна амфібія.

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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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Facts and figures

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
AmphiBIO
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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
AmphiBIO
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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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Family tree

  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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