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Sonoran Desert Toad
Incilius alvarius (Girard in Baird, 1859)

Current SSAR Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Colorado Toad (Bufo alvarius: Cooper, James G. 1869. The fauna of California and its geographical distribution. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4():61-81); Colorado Toad (Bufo alvarius: Cooper, James G. 1869. The naturalist in California. The American Naturalist 3(9):470-481); Girard's Toad (Bufo alvarius: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Giant Toad (Bufo alvarius: Wright, Anna Allen, and Alex Hazen Wright. 1933. Handbook of frogs and toads. The frogs and toads of the United States and Canada Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, NY. xi+231pp.); Colorado River Toad (Bufo alvarius: Wright, Anna Allen, and Alex Hazen Wright. 1933. Handbook of frogs and toads. The frogs and toads of the United States and Canada Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, NY. xi+231pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
Amphibian Species of the World
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1859 Baird, Spencer F. Reptiles of the Boundary, in: Volume 2, pt. 2 United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, U.S. 34th Congress, 1st Session, Executive Document 108. 1-35pp.
1970 Fouquette, Martin J., Jr. Bufo alvarius. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (93):1–4
1972 Blair, W. Frank. Evolution in the Genus Bufo. University of Texas Press, Austin. pp.
2005 Lannoo, Michael (Editor) Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species. University fo California Press, Berkeley. 1115pp.
2011 Mendelson, Joseph R., III, Daniel G. Mulcahy, T. S. Williams, and Jack W. Sites, Jr. A phylogeny and evolutionary natural history of mesoamerican toads (Anura: Bufonidae: Incilius) based on morphology, life history, and molecular data. Zootaxa (3138):1–34
2013 Dodd, C. Kenneth. Frogs of the United States and Canada. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 982pp.
2023 Dodd, C. Kenneth. Frogs of the United States and Canada. Second Edition. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 1032pp.

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