The spiny toad, spiny common toad, or giant toad (Bufo spinosus) is a species of toad native to the Iberian Peninsula, southern France, extreme northwestern Italy, and North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia). There is an isolated population in Jersey in the Channel Islands. For much of the 20th century, it was considered either a synonym or a subspecies of common toad Bufo bufo, but it is now classified as a separate species.

Diet

These toads feed on a number of invertebrates from earthworms to insects and woodlice.

Spiny toad

Description

Adult males measure and adult females in snout–vent length.

Spiny toad

References

Bufo

Frogs of Africa

Amphibians of North Africa

Amphibians of Europe

Taxa named by François Marie Daudin

Amphibians described in 1803

Spiny toad