DFW HERPS |
Anaxyrus (Bufo) debilis |
Green Toad |
GREEN TOAD Anaxyrus (Bufo) debilis Girard, 1854 STATUS: Uncommon DOCUMENTED COUNTIES: Dallas, Denton, Hood, Johnson, Parker, Somervell, Tarrant, and Wise HABITAT: Western Cross Timbers, Eastern Cross Timbers, Mesquite Grand Prairie, Cedar-Limestone Hills, and Rolling Plains SUBSPECIES: Eastern Green Toad (B. d. debilis Girard, 1854) COMMENTS: No recent records have been observed at the Dallas County sites due to commercial and industrial development. More collecting in the western part of the Metroplex should turn up more specimens of the eastern green toad.
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