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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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