Eastern Green Toad
Bufo (Anaxyrus) debilis debilis
-
- A. d. debilis – Kinney Co, TX – photo from iNaturalist, timoteo_b
-
- Map by Steve Bledsoe, SWCHR
DISTRIBUTION: In our region, Bufo (Anaxyrus) d. debilis occurs throughout most all of central and southern Texas and the eastern Panhandle region.
LEGAL STATUS: No Listings
MEANING OF SCIENTIFIC NAME: Bufo (Anaxyrus) debilis debilis (Girard – 1854)
Genus: Bufo, Latin = toad – toads have been known as bufo since ancient times
Genus 2: Anaxyrus – Greek = a chief, a leader
Species/Subspecies: debilis, Latin = weak, frail, crippled – ref. unknown
Ref. Ellen Beltz 2006
Ref. E. Jaeger 1962