| Couch's Spadefoot Toad, (Scaphiopus couchii) is a species of North American spadefoot toad (family Scaphiopodidae) native to the southwestern United States and the Baja region of Mexico. The epithet couchii is in honor of American naturalist Darius Nash Couch, who collected the first specimen while on a personal expedition to northern Mexico to collect plant, mineral and animal specimens for the Smithsonian Institute. |
