Old World Toads
Bufo
Bufo () is a genus of true toads in the amphibian family Bufonidae. As traditionally defined, it was a wastebasket genus containing a large number of toads from much of the world but following taxonomic reviews most of these have been moved to other genera, leaving only seventeen extant species from Europe, northern Africa and Asia in this genus, including the well-known common toad (B. bufo). Some of the genera that contain species formerly placed in Bufo are Anaxyrus (many North American species), Bufotes (European green toad and relatives), Duttaphrynus (many Asian species, including the Asian common toad introduced elsewhere), Epidalea (natterjack toad) and Rhinella (many Latin American species, including the cane toad introduced elsewhere).
26 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 26 known species
European Toad
speciesBufo bufo
Spiny Toad
speciesBufo spinosus
Taiwan Common Toad
speciesBufo bankorensis
Asiatic Toad
speciesBufo gargarizans
Sakhalin Toad
speciesBufo sachalinensis
Eastern-Japanese Common Toad
speciesBufo formosus
Caucasian Toad
speciesBufo verrucosissimus
Water Toad
speciesBufo stejnegeri
Western Japanese Common Toad
speciesBufo praetextatus
Eichwald's Toad
speciesBufo eichwaldi
West China Toad
speciesBufo andrewsi
Japanese stream toad
speciesBufo torrenticola
North Vietnam Toad
speciesBufo rubroventromaculatus
Earless Toad
speciesBufo cryptotympanicus
Guangdong Stream Toad
speciesBufo exiguus
Pageot's Mountain Toad
speciesBufo pageoti
Minshan Toad
speciesBufo minshanicus
Quinghai lake toad
speciesBufo tuberculatus
Yunnan Toad
speciesBufo yunlingensis
Tibetan Toad
speciesBufo tibetanus
Dahoaping Stream Toad
speciesBufo tuberospinius
Ailao Toad
speciesBufo ailaoanus
Daxueshan Stream Toad
speciesBufo yongdeensis
Spineless Stream Toad
speciesBufo aspinius
Luchun Stream Toad
speciesBufo luchunnicus
Menglian Stream Toad
speciesBufo menglianus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 21360.