Bufo punctatus (Red-spotted Toad)
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RED-SPOTTED
TOAD Bufo punctatus Baird & Girard, 1852
STATUS: Uncommon
LOCALITIES OBSERVED: Dallas
Co.: at Mt. Lebanon
Encampment S of Cedar Hill and a limestone area near upper Five Mile
Creek; Somervell Co.: 2.0
mi E Tx 220 on FM 204; Tarrant
Co.: Silver Creek area W
of Lake Worth DOCUMENTED COUNTIES: Dallas, Hood, Johnson, Parker, Somervell, Tarrant, and Wise
HABITAT: Cedar-Limestone
Hills, Western Cross Timbers, and Rolling Plains
COMMENTS: There are no
recent records for Dallas and Tarrant Counties.
Collecting in the southwestern part of the Metroplex should confirm
the presence of the red-spotted toad.
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