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    Papah
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    Default I found this toad (Bufo bufo) with some extrange skin disease, please help identify

    Hello, I'm Pablo. Live in the North of Spain. Yesterday I went to the woods in my bike, and found this fela in the grass and stoped by. When I looked closely noticed that the poor toad had something wrong: some kind of illness in the skin, maybe a virus, some larvae, fungus or other. I know those things are killing a lot of anfibians so I took it to be sure it's not contagious.

    The animal is a Bufo bufo juvenile of 4 cm from Cantabria, Spain. It has superficial adhesion of some little tubular white particles on its skin,at the back and side of it's head and some on the lower back. The tiny white things can be taken out with a forceps but the animal seem to suffer so I'll wait until I know more.

    Please help me identify and treat this thing on the animal skin.




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    Jace
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    Default Re: I found this toad (Bufo bufo) with some extrange skin disease, please help identify

    I'm not sure what these things are...but it looks like something an insect would lay. I hope someone can help you and that the toad is not in too much pain. Best of luck.

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    SethD
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    It looks like eggs from flies. I know there is a special kind of fly that lays eggs on bufo species over in Europe. The larva get into the nostrils and cause large gaping wounds. That is probably what this is. I would wash the eggs off before they hatch.

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    Papah
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    Default Re: I found this toad (Bufo bufo) with some extrange skin disease, please help identify

    Whoa! Now that I checked how fly eggs are, they are exactly that. Hopefully it's not a fungus, they could have been worse. I'm going to have that thing out of the little toad right now carefully. Thanks a lot, I'll show how it ends up without the white stuff.

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    Hi,

    Just to add here that flies don't usually effectively attack healthy toads; it would be worth getting the toad assessed, by a vet or experienced herpetologist, or at least keep it under observation if possible for a few days, before release. It may have an underlying problem which could make releasing it simply a death sentence.

    Hope this helps,

    Bruce.

    Quote Originally Posted by Papah View Post
    Whoa! Now that I checked how fly eggs are, they are exactly that. Hopefully it's not a fungus, they could have been worse. I'm going to have that thing out of the little toad right now carefully. Thanks a lot, I'll show how it ends up without the white stuff.

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    Papah
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    Default Re: I found this toad (Bufo bufo) with some extrange skin disease, please help identify

    Hello and thanks for collaborating.

    Here the direct contact with a vet expecialist in exotic animals is not a possibility, but I got the data about this case sent to an asociation specialized in Spanish anfibians diseases (www.sosanfibios.org), and I'll wait their sentence on it. Until then, my bro Rojillo will stay in quarentine well fed and treated, separated from any other toads that live in my garden.

    The info I have is that there is a fly (Lucilia bufonivora) that deposits its eggs on some European toads' skin (Bufo bufo and Bufo calamita). The egg period is usually very sort for flyes, so this maybe lasts around 1 or 2 weeks from laid to hatch. When the eggs hatch the worm-like larvae are 1,5mm to 2mm long, and they search for the host toad's nostrils to get into it's body. Once inside they begin to eat the toad alive, afecting critical areas around the poor animal's nose, until they finally kill it.

    I hope this experience can help anybody who come across something similar, and if the person is interested, maybe can save an anfibian live.






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