Southwestern Woodhouse’s Toad
Bufo (Anaxyrus) woodhousii australis
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- A. w. australis – Maricopa Co, Az, photo by Randy Babb AzPARC
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- Map by Steve Bledsoe, SWCHR
DISTRIBUTION: In our region, Bufo (Anaxyrus) w. australis occurs in the western Trans-Pecos region of Texas, southern and eastern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona.
LEGAL STATUS: No Listings
MEANING OF SCIENTIFIC NAME: Bufo (Anaxyrus) woodhousii australis (Shannon and Lowe, 1955)
Genus: Bufo, Latin = toad – toads have been known as bufo since ancient times
Genus 2: Anaxyrus – Greek = a chief, a leader
Species: woodhousii, honors Samuel W. Woodhouse
Subspecies: australis – Latin = southern — ref. southern Arizona distribution
Ref. Ellen Beltz 2006
Ref. E. Jaeger 1962