Asiatic toad

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Bufonidae
Genus: Bufo
Species: B. gargarizans
Binomial name: Bufo gargarizans

_One of the commonest of true toads in Southeast Asia, it occurs in a variety of habitats in both rural and urban areas. At night it can easily be found on grass lawns, and on paths and roads. Concretized drains are also a favored habitat, and the species can withstand brackish water.

_There is considerable color variation, but the species is easily identified by the presence of pronounced paratoid glands (a raised ridge behind the eye) and the lines of warts along the sides and ventrum.

_It ranges from Sri Lanka to Southern China, and down through Thailand, West Malaysia and Singapore to western Indonesia and the island of Borneo and Philippines.


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Cagayan de Oro, June 22 2007

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