Western Spadefoot Toad (Scaphiopus hammondii)

Query: amphibian

Result: 178^th of 1779

Subject:	Western Spadefoot Toad (Scaphiopus hammondii)

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Western spadefoot toad (Spea hammondii) is a relatively smooth-skinned species of American toad family Scaphiopodidae. Its eyes are pale gold with vertical pupils. It has a green or grey dorsum often with skin tubercles tipped in orange, and it is a whitish color on the venter. It has a wedge-shaped black spade on each hind foot. Adult western spadefoot toads are between 3.8 and 7.5 cm long.

Captured from a WONDERFUL MULTIMEDIA CD-ROM title,
"Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Nature",
Dorling Kindersley Multimedia, 1995

Dorling Kindersly Multimedia
(reviewed by Univ. of Texsas Library)
http://volvo.gslis.utexas.edu/~reviews/dkmm.html

For more images captured from the CD-ROM title,
http://bioinfo.kordic.re.kr/animal/APAsrch2.cgi?qt=DKMMNature-

amphibian
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