Bufo nebulifer (Picture heavy)

[SludgeMunkey]

After an interesting day of no sleep and a bit of activity that has fully restored my faith in the United States Postal Service...

I present to you two of my newest additions to the critter zoo:

Bufo nebulifer, The Costal Plains Toad (Formerly Bufo valliceps, the Gulf Coast Toad)

Here are some shots of one of the males:






And here are some shots of one of the females:




And just for comparison, here are Profile shots of each, male on the left:




I am very excited about these animals. Those copper-red-gold leaf eyes just blow my mind! The females especially are pretty mellow. I did not even have to use my acrylic photo box while taking these pictures. All of them were more than happy to eat a tong offered silkworm within hours of arrival. the male even left me a HUGE "present" which is now at my Vet's for a fecal.

Rain is in the forecast here, I have built an enclosure (outdoors, as they call rather loud....as my wife discovered while I was at work last night...) to take advantage of this. Ultimately my plan is to try my hand at captive beeding them.

Currently they are in quarantine in what is now known as the "Critter Room Annex". I suspect I may downsize the "warm" room a bit and build a "rain room" for my Anura.

[Kerry1968]

Beautiful eyes on those toads. I love the picture you have chosen for your avatar.

[SludgeMunkey]

I haven't figured out how to photograph the dorsal crests on the heads to do them justice. They are very reptilian. It invokes that glee I felt as a kid obsessed with dinosaurs.

Interesting to note too, is the lack of cornified pads on the hid feet for digging like I am so used to seeing on the local critters.

That, and they are BIG. I have not seen toads this size since I lived in Pennsylvania back in the late 80s.

[John]

I'm glad they made it alright (I sent these to Johnny). The photos are very good Johnny. They are large but on Monday last week I saw bigger females and males. They do seem to make a good pet toad though - not nervous little things like the Texas Toads I have now.

[SludgeMunkey]

They get bigger!?!?!

Excellent!

The one male (pictured) is a talkative little chap. I forgot and left my drip/rain system timer on yesterday after testing it. The wife was not amused at 2am. The toads must have liked it though, there was muddy little foot prints all over the sides of their temporary quarters.


The taxonomy change has made what appears to be somewhat scant information even harder to find. I figure I will follow the "Rules of Toad" and all will be good.

[John]

What would you like to know? These guys aren't big on digging and they like to live in wooded areas (though they can get by without trees). Their range is generally humid and warm during much of the year. At night they like to get into natural or artificial refuges (Nate Nelson tells me they find these all the time in water meters in Fort Worth). They breed all summer long, unlike the several arid species of Bufo.

[Kurt]

The taxonomy change has made what appears to be somewhat scant information even harder to find.

Try Ollotis nubilifer.
http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/Taxon...search=ollotis*