What is Western toad?
{{Taxobox|name = Western Toad | status = LC | status_system = iucn3.1 | status_ref = | trend = down | image = Bufo_boreas_5629.JPG | image_caption = In [[Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest]] | regnum = [[Animalia]] | phylum = [[Chordata]] | classis = [[Amphibia]] | ordo = [[Anura]] | familia = [[Bufonidae]] | genus = ''[[Bufo]]'' | subgenus = ''[[Anaxyrus]]'' | species = '''''A. boreas''''' | binomial = ''Anaxyrus boreas'' | binomial_authority = Baird & Girard, 1852 | synonyms = ''Bufo boreas''<br>''Bufo politus'' | range_map =Anaxyrus_boreas_range_map.png }} The '''Western toad''' (''Anaxyrus boreas'') is a [[species]] of [[toad]]s. They are among the largest toads. They can grow up to 5.6 and 13 cm long. They live in western [[North America]]. ==References== *http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/animals/amphibian/bubo/all.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018015445/http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/animals/amphibian/bubo/all.html |date=2012-10-18 }} ==Books== *{{aut|Pauly, G. B., D. M. Hillis, and D. C. Cannatella.}} (2004) The history of a Nearctic colonization: Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the Nearctic toads (''Bufo''). ''Evolution'' 58: 2517–2535. *This article is based on a description from ''A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Coastal Southern California'', Robert N. Fisher and Ted J. Case, [http://www.werc.usgs.gov/fieldguide/index.htm USGS.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090825042544/http://www.werc.usgs.gov/fieldguide/index.htm |date=2009-08-25 }} ==Other websites== {{Commons-inline|Bufo boreas|Western toad}} *{{cite web |url=http://armi.usgs.gov/feature_boreal_toad.asp |title=Native Boreal Toads Released Into Rocky Mountain National Park |publisher=armi.usgs.gov |accessdate=2009-12-12 |last= |first= |archive-date=2009-05-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090502141533/http://armi.usgs.gov/feature_boreal_toad.asp |url-status=dead }} {{Biology-stub}} [[Category:Toads]] [[Category:Frogs of North America]]