Couch's Spadefoot
Scaphiopus couchii
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Amphibians
Couch's spadefoot toad or Couch's spadefoot is a species of North American spadefoot toad. The specific epithet couchii is in honor of American naturalist Darius Nash Couch, who collected the first specimen while on a personal expedition to northern Mexico to collect plant, mineral, and animal specimens for the Smithsonian Institution.
Classification
- Class
- Amphibia
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Scaphiopodidae
- Genus
- Scaphiopus