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[justin shockey]

Probably a toad you'll only see in IA. Sorry. The only B. species that I've encountered in IA, is B. americanus. They have a great personallity.

dont be a jerk billy

[tylototriton]

There are several species of toad that can be found in Iowa. The moniker "Iowa Toad" is a common name, which to be quite honest, really means nothing. Common names are different everywhere you go because we all assign different identifications. In Costa Rica half the species don't even have common names, do you just make them up and hope they stick.

Anywho, in Iowa there are 4 species of toad.
B. americanus (American Toad)
B. cognatus (Great Plains Toad)
B. woodhousei (Woodhouse's Toad)
Scaphiophus bombifrons (Plains Spadefoot Toad)

Alex

[justin shockey]

i like the spadefoots best

[Billy]

dont be a jerk billy

Sorry, I wasn't trying to be. I sometimes have a horrible sense of humor. Hope you forgive me on that.
I have never seen any toads in IA except for B. americanus. I do remember seeing lots of different species of frogs though.(Even though toads are frogs and frogs are toads). My favorite frog sp. in IA would have to be Leopard frogs. They are just so wildly colored, and I like hearing them call.

[Kurt]

dont be a jerk billy

I didn't think he was being a jerk. I beieve he was making a joke, hence the ""

By asking my question I just wanted know what Jody meant by "Iowa toad" as this is not a common name that I am familiar with. Didn't mean to start any trouble between members.

[Billy]

I didn't think he was being a jerk. I beieve he was making a joke, hence the ""

By asking my question I just wanted know what Jody meant by "Iowa toad" as this is not a common name that I am familiar with. Didn't mean to start any trouble between members.

There's no trouble. My attempts at joking around often end up getting people to think I'm being an a**, or a jerk. If I was upset, I'd say so. That's why I appologized.
Ok, now I learned that there's more than B. americanus in IA. I do agree that the most common toad in an area like a state would be labled as, in this case, an Iowa Toad.
I just have always called them "hop toads".

[Kurt]

Whats a hop toad?

[Billy]

Whats a hop toad?

THAT'S AN ORDER! HOP TOAD, HOP! lol!

[Kurt]

Oh ok. Cool, I don't have to catalogue it.

[Billy]

Oh ok. Cool, I don't have to catalogue it.

Nope, not at all. This is like red-neck zoology. lol