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Common european toad

Bufo bufo

Bufo bufo

Description

Toad with stocky and sturdy body. Skin with warts and with big glandes at the two side of the neck, called paratoides. The colour of the back is dull and uniform, mainly brown, red or gray verge on olive green. Stomach is dirty white. The eardrum is little.The eyes are yellow and have a horizontal pupil. The male is 10 cm long, female about 15 cm.
Feeding Invertebrate, mainly worms and insects.
Distribution Europe, Russian and north Africa.
Habitat

It lives on different habitat on the ground.
In reproduction period it goes in ponds and puddles of water, temporary too.

 

Toad

Toad are Anura with short tails. They live in the grounds and are adapted to long walker. They are not very quick and they do little jump.
Weapons: they camoufage themselves and have warts and gland with unpleasant substances.

Anura

Anura are the without tails amphibians, they have back paws for jump. They include frogs, tree frogs and toads.