Nupital Pads?

[daybr4ke]

I have a pair of woodhouse's toads, and they posed for a perfect picture of the bottom of their foot. I recently have been having doubts about their gender, I thought they were female, since they don't make any noise, but now I am unsure. In addition I was wondering how reliable an indicator nupital pads even are.
http://imgur.com/a/iWQqm
Sorry for the lame photo quality. Thanks!

[elly]

I'm not sure how reliable they are myself. I think some frogs only have the pads darken during mating season.

[daybr4ke]

Thanks Elly. I guess I'll just keep listening for croaks lol

[tgampper]

Nuptial pads are dark, thick patches on the forelegs of male frogs. These patches are used to grasp on the female during the mating embrace called amplexus. There are basically two kinds of amplexus, inguinal or lumbar (male wraps his forelegs around the female's waist) and axilary (the male wraps his forelegs around the female's armpits). Most toads engage in axilary amplexus.