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Anaxyrus cognatus (Great Plains Toad)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Great Plains toad (Anaxyrus cognatus) is a relatively large species of true toad. It ranges from southern Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan throughout the midwest United States and the inland western United States into northern Mexico.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
14
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.55
EDGE Score: 1.71
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Attributes

Gestation [3]  4 days
Litter Size [3]  11,074
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  11 years
Snout to Vent Length [2]  4.488 inches (11.4 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Rivers and Streams, Temporary Pools
Adult Weight [2]  25 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Female Maturity [3]  2 years
Male Maturity [3]  2 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No

Predators

Buteo platypterus (Broad-winged Hawk)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Rhabdias americanus[5]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Oliveira, Brunno Freire; São-Pedro, Vinícius Avelar; Santos-Barrera, Georgina; Penone, Caterina; C. Costa, Gabriel. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Sci. Data.
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0