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Wyoming Toads
Information and maps based on information from Wyoming Biodiversity Institute

Toads

(Photo by Mindy Mead)

Wyoming toad

Western (boreal) toad

Size: .5 inch (metamorph)
to 2.5 inch (adult)
Description: These toads are
tan to dark brown and have dark
blotches surrounding warts. The
underside of this toad is cream or
white with black spots.
Breeding habitat: Shallow water
in ponds, wetlands, oxbows and
flood plains in the Laramie Basin.

Size: .75 inch (metamorph) to 4.5
inches (adult)
Description: This toad is light
olive to dark brown with raised
warts and a white dorsal stripe.
The underside of this toad is
white with black spots.
Breeding habitat: Shallow water
in ponds, flooded meadows and
slow or moving pooled water on
the edge of streams.

Wyoming toad range

(Photo by Katrina Cook)

Western toad range

Rocky Mountain
(Woodhouse's) toad

(Photo by Wendy Estes-Zumpf/WGFD)

Rocky Mountain toad range

Size: .75 inch (metamorph)
to 4.5 inches (adult)
Description: This toad is mottled
tan, gray, dark brown or olive
with irregular dark spots and
many warts. It has a white dorsal
stripe. Its belly is cream colored
and occasionally has black spots.
Breeding habitat: Lower elevation ponds, reservoirs, lakes
and backwater areas of streams
and rivers.

Great Plains toad

(Photo by Jared Draxler)

Great Plains toad range

Great Basin
spadefoot toad

Plains spadefoot toad

(Photo by Wendy Estes-Zumpf/WGFD)

Plains spadefoot toad range

Size: .5 inch (metamorph)
to 2.5 inches (adult)
Description: Light gray or
brown with dark mottling. Skin
is relatively smooth, often with
small, orange warts. Has a bony
lump between its eyes. Its belly
is white.
Breeding habitat: After heavy
rains, they will breed in temporary puddles, ditches, pools and
ponds in prairies, sagebrush
steppe and desert scrub.

		

Size: .75 inch (metamorph)
to 5 inches (adult)
Description: Tan, brown or olive.
This toad often has symmetrical, greenish-black splotches
surrounded by pale rings. The
underside is white or cream.
Breeding habitat: Lower elevation pools, ponds and potholes
or occasionally in backwater or
pooled areas of streams.

(Photo by Zack Walker/WGFD)

Size: .5 inch (metamorph)
to 2 inches (adult)
Description: Light gray, brown or
olive with small, dark spots. It has
relatively smooth skin with small,
orange warts.
Breeding habitat: After heavy
rains, they will breed in temporary puddles, ditches, pools and
ponds in prairies, sagebrush
steppe and desert scrub.

Great Basin spadefoot toad range

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