American Toad
Anaxyrus americanus
Amphibia
COMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- Up to 10 yrs
- Size
- Medium
- Diet
- Insectivore
- Activity
- Nocturnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Temperate forest
- Range
- North America
- Movement
- Hopping
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Toxins
- Status
- Common
About
A widespread, warty toad of eastern North America, recognizable by the one or two large warts per dark spot on its back. A single American Toad can eat up to 1,000 insects in a single night.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA jelly-coated egg is laid in water and develops over days into an aquatic larva.
- 2.tadpoleA gilled tadpole swims and grazes on algae, slowly absorbing its tail and growing limbs.
- 3.juvenileA near-adult amphibian leaves the water with new legs and lungs, smaller than the mature form.
- 4.adultFully grown at adult size, breathing air.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Amphibia
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Bufonidae
- Genus
- Anaxyrus
- Species
- Anaxyrus americanus