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The Texas toad feeds on insects such as beetles, ants and bugs. It digs a burrow in soft soil and can bury itself in mud. It sometimes conceals itself in a gopher burrow, under a log or in a deep crack in the mud to prevent desiccation, spending much of its time dormant in prolonged dry weather.
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The North American green toad (Anaxyrus debilis, formerly Bufo debilis) is a species of toad found in the southwestern United States in the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. It is also found in northern Mexico in the states of Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Durango, and Zacatecas.
Red-spotted toad: Found in central and western Texas [20] LC [21] Anaxyrus speciosus: Texas toad: Common throughout western two-thirds of Texas, population declining in the Rio Grande Valley [22] LC [23] Anaxyrus woodhousii: Woodhouse's toad: Found in central, west and north Texas [24] LC [25] Incilius nebulifer: Coastal plains toad
Most of the Great Basin spadefoot toads are nocturnal and their diet includes invertebrates such as ants. [17] Hurter's spadefoot toad Scaphiopus hurterii: Hurter's spadefoot toads are found in the Southern U.S states of Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. These toads were once thought to be a subspecies of the eastern spadefoot toad. [17]
The body is nearly equal in width and length. It is a dark brown to black color with a red-orange stripe on its back along with splotches of color on its body. The generic name Rhinophrynus means 'nose-toad', from rhino-(ῥῑνο-), the combining form of the Ancient Greek rhis (ῥίς, 'nose') and phrunē (φρύνη, 'toad'). [4]
The Houston toad (Anaxyrus houstonensis), [4] formerly Bufo houstonensis, is an endangered species of amphibian that is endemic to Texas in the United States. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] This toad was discovered in the late 1940s and named in 1953.
The western toad (Anaxyrus boreas) is a large toad species, between 5.6 and 13 cm (2.2 and 5.1 in) long, native to western North America. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] A. boreas is frequently encountered during the wet season on roads, or near water at other times.