Woodhouse's Toad (Anaxyrus woodhousii woodhousii)
Created: May 12th, 2014 - 03:06 PM
Last Modified: May 20th, 2014 - 08:36 PM Entered by: Chris Patnaude
Record 185322
Last Modified: May 20th, 2014 - 08:36 PM Entered by: Chris Patnaude
Record 185322
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Country: United States |
State: California |
County: Riverside County |
Time: 2014-05-10 20:20:00 |
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Qty: 2 |
Age: Adult |
Sex: -- |
Method: Road cruising |
Habitat: Desert/agricultural |
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Body Temperature: ----- |
Air Temperature: 79.00F |
Ground Temperature: ----- |
Humidity: ----- |
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Sky Conditions: Few clouds |
Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous |
Elevation: ----- |
Barometric Pressure: ----- |
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Notes
First herp was a live uta but didn't voucher. First vouchered herps of night were a couple woodhouses toads (pretty sure lifers but may have seen a few in previous years in same area and mistook them for western). We found them on the same road a minute apart, only vouchered the first one.
Vouchers
Comments
Will, I guess I already added the photo I was thinking of so don't have any others, sorry.
Will,
Unfortunately I don't have any better pics of the lyre snakes and did not collect them so won't be able to check vent-scale count. I do have one blurry pic showing the whole body of the live one so you might be able to do a dorsal blotch count, I have attached that to the record in case it will help. Should I leave it as lambda for now?
Also thanks for the correction on the woodhouses toad, I missed the cranial crests. Yes I'm pretty sure these are lifers, but may have seen a few before and mistook for westerns.
Chris
Chris, you have a lot of great records, especially the two range extending records for lambda in Nevada. Did you happen to get better pictures of them or possibly even collect one. I'm interested in the vent-scale count, it would be either one or two. The dorsal blotching also helps to identify them as lambda, but hard to count by the images. Finally, have you found Woodhouse's Toad yet? If you haven't, than this record will be your "lifer." cheers!