Frog or Toad.... Help

[UncleChester]

Toad care basics: Frog Forum - Toad Basics - Keeping ground-dwelling Toads. A care sheet for Bufo, Anaxyrus, Spea, Scaphiopus, Ollotis, Alytes, Pelobates

List of Frogs and Toads of Utah: Association of Zoos and Aquariums - Frogs and Toads in Utah

Yours is a close match to the picture of the Western Toad in the link above (as Heather has suggested) and matches the description. Yours doesn't seem to fit the colouration of the Woodhouse (which seems to require dark spots), which is the only other Utah Toad that comes close (edit- missed the Great Plains Toad, same problem it wants dark spots). American Toads don't make it that far west.

[GrifTheGreat]

Toad care basics: Frog Forum - Toad Basics - Keeping ground-dwelling Toads. A care sheet for Bufo, Anaxyrus, Spea, Scaphiopus, Ollotis, Alytes, Pelobates

List of Frogs and Toads of Utah: Association of Zoos and Aquariums - Frogs and Toads in Utah

Yours is a close match to the picture of the Western Toad in the link above (as Heather has suggested) and matches the description. Yours doesn't seem to fit the colouration of the Woodhouse (which seems to require dark spots), which is the only other Utah Toad that comes close (edit- missed the Great Plains Toad, same problem it wants dark spots). American Toads don't make it that far west.

I see. Hmm I'm mistaken. It looks a lot like the American Toad the Nature Center has here, but if their natural range doesn't reach that far then it can't be an Americanus.

[UncleChester]

I see. Hmm I'm mistaken. It looks a lot like the American Toad the Nature Center has here, but if their natural range doesn't reach that far then it can't be an Americanus.

Given the range of colours that American Toads can hit, they're a suspect for everything that shape. Their range map is interesting: Range, it's like they just refuse to cross the 95 W longitude line (or thereabouts).

[GrifTheGreat]

Given the range of colours that American Toads can hit, they're a suspect for everything that shape. Their range map is interesting: Range, it's like they just refuse to cross the 95 W longitude line (or thereabouts).

Wow!! They really do pretty much stop in the center of the country. That is an odd sudden halt in their range. That's very interesting.

[deranged chipmunk]

I see. Hmm I'm mistaken. It looks a lot like the American Toad the Nature Center has here, but if their natural range doesn't reach that far then it can't be an Americanus.

maybe he took a train or a bus. he wanted to be the renegade toad!!LOL looks like their range ends where the mississippsi basin(?) would end. it's rather dry throughout the mid-west to montain states, isn't it? maybe they just can't survive any further?