Bufo debilis (Green Toad)
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GREEN
TOAD Bufo debilis Girard, 1854
STATUS: Uncommon
LOCALITIES OBSERVED: Dallas
Co.: Valley View Lane N
of Tx 114 and Fish Creek Rd between Belt Line Rd and FM 1382;
Hood Co.; .1 mi
S FM 51 on FM 201 near Lollar Branch;
Parker Co.: Lake
Mineral Wells State Park, 10 mi S of Weatherford, and 5 mi S of jct of FM
51 on Tx 171; Somervell Co.: 14
mi W Rio Vista at Johnson Ranch; Tarrant
Co.: W of Lake Worth,
Fort Worth Nature Center at Lake Worth, and SW of Lake Arlington;
Wise Co.: Lyndon B. Johnson Nat'l Grasslands
DOCUMENTED COUNTIES: Dallas,
Denton, Hood, Johnson, Parker, Somervell, Tarrant, and Wise
HABITAT: Western Cross
Timbers, Eastern Cross Timbers, Mesquite Grand Prairie, Cedar-Limestone
Hills, and Rolling Plains
SUBSPECIES: Eastern
Green Toad (B. d. debilis Girard, 1854)
COMMENTS: No recent
records have been observed at the Dallas County sites due to commercial
and industrial development. More
collecting in the western part of the Metroplex should turn up more
specimens of the eastern green toad.
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