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Amphibia
Anura
Scaphiopodidae
Plains Spadefoot
Spea bombifrons
(Cope, 1863)
Current SSAR Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Cope's Spea
(
Spea bombifrons
: 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);
Central Plains Spadefoot Toad
(
Scaphiopus bombifrons
: Smith, Hobart M.
1934
. The Amphibians of Kansas. American Midland Naturalist 15(4):377-527);
Spadefoot Toad
(
Scaphiopus hammondi bombifrons
: Brennan, Lawrence A.
1934
. A check list of the amphibians and reptiles of Ellis County, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 37():189-191);
Central Plains Spadefoot
(
Scaphiopus bombifrons
: Schmidt, Karl P.
1953
. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);
Taxon Links:
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
Amphibian Species of the World
NatureServe
iNaturalist
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Pertinent LIterature:
1863
Cope, Edward D. On
Trachycephalus
and
Scaphiopus
and other batrachia. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 15():43-54
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