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09-Jul-2016

Crapaud d'Amérique métamorphe/American toadlet

Technoparc Ville Saint-Laurent

Merci à Vincent Di Lena pour aide identification.

Thank you to Professor David Green for explanation and details for its identification (see comment section).

Et Merci à Jean-François Desroches pour le complément d'information (see comment section).

There was a thought whether this might have been a Fowler's toad because of the ressemblance to the pictures on the website (see link below). That would have been so cool!!!

http://www.dpughphoto.com/frogs_and_toads

https://www.ontario.ca/page/fowlers-toad

Besides being near impossible for a fowler's toad to be found in our area,
some other characteristics seem to lean towards an american toad:
possibly the parotoids are not touching the orbit.
See interesting comparison here: at snakesandfrogs.com



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Julie Tremblay14-Jul-2016 10:03
Réponse de Jean-François Desroches, auteur de Guide des Amphibiens et des Reptiles du Québec et des Maritimes:
"C'est le métamorphe (ou si tu préfères le jeune récemment métamorphosé) du crapaud d'Amérique. Tu as raison, il n'est pas illustré dans le guide. Par contre, à la page 108, il est mentionné (juvéniles) : "à la métamorphose (...) marqué de verrues rouges ou plus claires"."
Julie Tremblay12-Jul-2016 17:17
Answer from David M. Green, Professor; President, The Herpetologists' League
Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal QC Canada
" It's an American Toad. It's a very small one and would have transformed from a tadpole no more than a couple of weeks ago. Although the cranial crests and parotoid glands are not yet well formed, even at this early age you can see that the warts on back are much larger than a Fowler's Toad would have. "
Guest 12-Jul-2016 01:32
Not a frog, very young american toad.
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