Common toad

Bufo bufo
True toads (Bufonidae)

Bronze coloured eyes with horizontal pupils.
Common toadon RikenMon's Nature-Guide

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Chubby toad, brown pattern, wart-like skin and no back stripe. Noticeable gold bronze to dark yellow coloured eyes in a relatively large head. Iris is horizontal. Short legs and toes, little flippers on the hind toes.

Lots of variation in pattern and colour, no green though. ♀ grow larger than ♂, in southern Europe, they grow larger than northern Europe. In spring they gather in large groups for mating.

⇔ l. 6-13 cm

This is the largest endemic frog in Europe.

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