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Hurter's Spadefoot
Scaphiopus hurterii Strecker, 1910

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

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Arkansas Louisiana Oklahoma Texas

First instance(s) of published English names:
Hurter's Spadefoot (Scaphiopus holbrookii hurterii: 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.); Hurter's Solitary Spadefoot (Scaphiopus holbrookii hurterii: 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.); Savannah Spadefoot (Scaphiopus hurterii: Bragg, Arthur N. 1950. Mass movement at metamorphosis in the Savannah Spadefoot, Scaphiopus hurterii Strecker. Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science 31():26-27);

Taxon Links:

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

Selected References:
1910 Strecker, John K., Jr. Description of a new solitary spadefoot (Scaphiopus hurterii) from Texas, with other herpetological novelties. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 23():115–122
1937 Smith, Hobart M. Notes on Scaphiopus hurterii Strecker. Herpetologica 1(4):104-108
1939 Tanner, Vasco M. A study of the genus Scaphiopus. Western North American Naturalist 1(1):3-26
1956 Chrapliwy, Pete S. Taxonomy and distribution of the spadefoot toads of North America (Salientia: Pelobatidae). Thesis. University of Kansas, Lawrence. 131pp.
1957 Wasserman, Aaron O. Factors affecting interbreeding in sympatric species of spadefoots (genus Scaphiopus). Evolution 11(3):320-338
1958 Blair, W. Frank. Mating call and stage of speciation of two allopatric populations of spadefoots (Scaphiopus). Texas Journal of Science 10(4):484-488
1963 Bragg, Arthur N., Rex Mathews, and Ray Kingsinger, Jr. The mouth parts of tadpoles of Hurter's Spadefoot. Herpetologica 19(4):284-285
1980 Sattler, P. W. Genetic relationship among selected species of North American Scaphiopus. Copeia 1980(4):605-610
1991 Collins, Joseph T. Viewpoint: A new taxonomic arrangement for some North American amphibins and reptiles Herpetological Review 22(2):42-43
1991 Collins, Joseph T. Amphibians and reptiles in the upper Mississippi river valley: Systematic and distributional problems. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 66(4):149-152
2000 Maglia, Anne M. Phylogenetic Relationships of Pelobatoid Frogs (Anura: Pelobatoidea). Dissertation. University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. pp.
2002 Buchholz, Daniel R. and Tyrone B. Hayes. Evolutionary patterns of diversity in spadefoot toad metamorphosis (Anura: Pelobatidae). Copeia 2002(1):180-189
2014 Crother, Brian I. The bold taxonomic hypotheses of Collins (1991): 23 years later. Herpetological Review 45(2):268-272

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