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Anaxyrus woodhousii
Woodhouse's Toad
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Photographer: William Flaxington
ID: 0000 0000 0303 0267 (2003-03-17)Copyright © 2010 William Flaxington
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date of photo Mar 15, 2003
latitude 33.57050 longitude -116.03264 max error distance 4952 meters
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horizontal datum World Geodetic System 1984 georeferencing source GeoLocatelocation
Coachella Valley, east of Mecca, virtually all roads intersecting orchards (Riverside County, California, US)family
Bufonidae
order
Anura
class Amphibia
habitat Agriculturenotes During rainy night extraordinary amount of dead and live toads spotted on roads intersecting orchards. Unfortunately, many gravid females were crushed, forcing eggs onto pavement. A conscious effort was made to detect breeding choruses, but none heard. Toads view stalking garden snails, which carpeted roads. In cultivated areas this toad overwhelmed its counterpart, Bufo cognatus. The latter was more often encountered in undeveloped plots of land surrounding orchard.photo category: Animal - Amphibian
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Woodhouse's Toad, Southwestern Woodhouse's Toad (b. W. Australis), East Texas Toad (b. W. Velatus), Rocky Mountain Toad, Woodhouse's Toad (b. W. Woodhousii) (AW )
Woodhouse's Toad (photographer)
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