Colorado River toad
Amazing fact
The Colorado River toad catches prey with a long, sticky tongue.
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The Colorado River toad catches prey with a long, sticky tongue.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Colorado River toad
- Scientific name
- Incilius alvarius
- Japanese name
- コロラドリバーヒキガエル
- Group
- Amphibians and reptiles
- Class
- Amphibia
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Bufonidae
- Genus
- Incilius
How the Colorado River toad lives
It is active at night. It eats snails, beetles, spiders and lizards, among other prey. It lives alone outside the breeding season. In the summer breeding season, toads gather at temporary pools to mate.
University of Michigan Animal Diversity WebBasic data
- Range
- The United States and Mexico
Where the Colorado River toad has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- コロラドリバーヒキガエル
- 简体中文
- 科罗拉多沙蟾蜍
- 繁體中文
- 科羅拉多沙蟾蜍
- Español
- Bufo alvarius
- Français
- Crapaud du désert
- Deutsch
- Coloradokröte
- Português (Brasil)
- Bufo alvarius
- العربية
- علجوم نهر كولورادو
- Русский
- Колорадская жаба
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — コロラドリバーヒキガエルChecked: 2026-11-04
- University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web — Incilius alvariusChecked: 2026-11-06
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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