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African Common Toad
Amietophrynus gutturalis
-24.5111, 35.1895
Field Notes
Description:
A very clever toad! He understand to take advantage of an evening light and all the insects drawn to it. He just sat there and waither for the bugs to get close enough! Food for minimal effort. Size: about 10 cm.
It is a very adaptable species occurring in a wide variety of savannahs, grassland, thickets, and agricultural land. It is able to breed in more or less permanent and semi-permanent standing water. It breeds frequently in garden pools.
Habitat:
Coumpound app. 150 meters from the Indian Ocean
Notes:
When using the flash, the colours of the toad became a bit more redish than I experienced them IRL.
This species occurs from extreme southern Somalia (M. Tandy pers. comm.), central and southern Kenya, though Tanzania, southern Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola, south to northern Namibia, northern central and eastern South Africa. It occurs on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba (Tanzania). The boundary between this species and Bufo regularis in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania is poorly understood, and the map should be regarded as provisional. It is introduced on Reunion (to France) and Mauritius. Records from southeastern Uganda might refer to Bufo regularis and therefore require confirmation. It ranges from sea level up to at least 1,900m asl. (iucnredlist)
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