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Photo of Couch's Spadefoot (Scaphiopus couchii)

Couch's Spadefoot

Scaphiopus couchii

Couch's spadefoot toad or Couch's spadefoot (Scaphiopus couchii) is a species of North American spadefoot toad (family Scaphiopodidae). The specific epithet couchii is in honor of American naturalist Darius Nash Couch, who collected the first specimen while on a personal expedition to northern Mexico to collect plant, mineral, and animal specimens for the Smithsonian Institution.

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Photo credit: Clinton & Charles Robertson from Texas, USA

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