Smooth-sided toad

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Species of amphibian

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::summary Species of amphibian ::

| name = Smooth-sided toad | image = Spotted Toad (Rhaebo guttatus) (10345945393).jpg | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = | taxon = Rhaebo guttatus | authority = (Schneider, 1799) | synonyms =

  • Bufo guttatus Schneider, 1799
  • Bufo anderssoni Melin, 1941
  • Rhaebo anderssoni (Melin, 1941)

The smooth-sided toad or spotted toad (Rhaebo guttatus), formerly known as Bufo guttatus, is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It is found in the Amazonian Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela, as well as the Guianas (French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname). Specimens from southern Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil might represent Rhaebo ecuadorensis described in 2012.

Description

| image1 = Rhaebo guttatus (10.5852-ejt.2022.836.1919) Figure 7 (cropped).png | image2 = Rhaebo guttatus (10.3897-zookeys.762.22634) Figure 3 (cropped).jpg | header = Amapá, Brazil | align = left | direction = vertical | total_width = 190 Males growth to about 15 cm snout–vent length. The dorsal color is cream colored or very light brown to reddish brown. The belly is a darker shade. The species has a characteristically prominent preocular ridge that is present even in juveniles.

The smooth sided toad secretes a toxin from a gland behind their eyes known as a bufotoxin, it has been known to cause heart failure in humans if ingested. This toxin is the toad's main line of defense against predators.

Habitat and conservation

Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests, in particular mature gallery forests. It occurs on the ground or in deep leaf-litter on the forest floor. It is locally threatened by habitat loss.

References

References

  1. Claudia Azevedo-Ramos, Enrique La Marca, Marinus Hoogmoed, Steffen Reichle. (2010). "''Rhaebo guttatus''".
  2. Frost, Darrel R.. (2016). "''Rhaebo guttatus'' (Schneider, 1799)". American Museum of Natural History.
  3. Coloma, L. A.. "''Rhaebo guttatus''".
  4. Mueses-Cisneros, J. J.. (2012). "A new Amazonian species of ''Rhaebo'' (Anura: Bufonidae) with comments on ''Rhaebo glaberrimus'' (Gunther, 1869) and ''Rhaebo guttatus'' (Schneider, 1799)". Zootaxa.
  5. "Smooth-Sided Toad". Woodland Park Zoo.
  6. (25 January 2014). "Smooth sided toad (''Rhaebo guttatus'')". Frogs.cc.

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