Western Giant Toad

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Western Giant Toad
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Order: Anura Family: Bufonidae Genus: Bufo Species: B. fustiger
Binomial name
Bufo fustiger Schwartz, 1960

The Western Giant Toad (Bufo fustiger) is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family. It is endemic to Cuba. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, plantations , rural gardens, and heavily degraded former forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.

[edit] Source

• Hedges, B. & Díaz, L. 2004. Bufo fustiger. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 21 July 2007.