spadefoot

Synonyms:

spadefoot toad

Types:

Scaphiopus hammondii, western spadefoot

this spadefoot toad live in California

Scaphiopus multiplicatus, southern spadefoot

this spadefoot toad lives in the southwestern United States

Scaphiopus bombifrons, plains spadefoot

this spadefoot toad lives in plains and hills and river bottoms in areas of low rainfall east of the Rocky Mountains

Type of:

anuran, batrachian, frog, salientian, toad, toad frog

any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species