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Tucson Residents: Sent in photos 

Other pond visitors (furry, feathered or hoofed)

 Helpful hint for identification- Enter scientific name in your search engine for images..

List of Tucson area frogs and toads in descending order from most prominent:

Submitted images	Name	Listen to the amphibian - click the - RIBIT	Distribution
Scaphiopus couchii	Couch’s Spadefoot
j evenson UofA extension		Hear me local recording Ribit other
N 32 degrees 16.130' W110 degrees 55.689' Elevation: 2426 ft. melissa evers Winterhaven
pima county fair grounds dennis caldwell	Bufo cognatus  Great Plains Toad	frogsong- www.naturenorth.com frogsong other - ribit
pima county fair grounds dennis caldwell	scaphiopus multiplicatus Mexican (or Southern) Spadefoot	ribit
bufo alvarius	Sonoran Desert (or Colorado River) Toad
west branch		ribit
casey manson

Uncommon to Tucson basin proper but will be found in and around the mountains:

Submitted images	Name	Song	Distribution
I10 & 22nd  dennis caldwell	Red-spotted Toad Bufo punctatus	ribit
	Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad  Gastrophryne olivacea This particular fellow was found at West Branch	ribit
Tanque Verde Canyon dennis caldwell	Canyon Treefrog Hyla arenicolor	ribit USGS chorus
Rarer: But possibly making a come back in the case of the leopard frog
river and 1st	Lowland Leopard frog rana yavapaiensis	ribit
Pam Glenn        south central
	Found in the Speedway / Houghton area - Betsy Mahaffey Thank you Contact Dennis Caldwell with the Notch Neighborhood Project Notch Neighborhood, the area in the mile square in the NW corner of Saguaro Nat'l Park East, and one population near Escalante between Freeman and Houghton
	Southwestern Woodhouse’s Toad bufo woodhousei   - last seen 1960's	ribit
	African Clawed Frog xenopus laevis	ribit
	Sonoran Green Toad Bufo retiformis	ribit
	Burrowing Treefrog  (or Northern Casque-headed Frog) Pternohyla fodiens	ribit

Introduced species THE BAD for Tucson Basin wildlife

photo courtesy G Barnhill -  North Central Tucson Catalina foothills As seen here there is a lot of variation  in coloration and marking	American Bullfrog Rana catesbeiana - widely found   ribit USGS  Bullfrog  data courtesy USGS.GOV
American bullfrog tadpole data   USGS.Gov Range
Rana catesbeiana

Tucson frog and toad images courtesy of local residents - Thank you all. 

Images of other possible visitors to a Tucson watergarden:

Images courtesy Dennis Caldwell 

Do not forget to click on images to enlarge..

Another excellent list with great identification images- Tucson Herpetological Society List

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