🐾 European Toad

Bufo bufo · wildlife atlas entry

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The common toad , European toad , or in Anglophone parts of Europe, simply the toad ( Bufo bufo , from Latin bufo "toad"), is an amphibian found throughout most of Europe (with the exception of Ireland, Iceland, and some Mediterranean islands), in the western part of North Asia, and in a small portion of Northwest Africa. It is one of a group of closely related animals that are descended from a common ancestral line of toads and which form... Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

Record card

Scientific name	Bufo bufo
Rank	species
Community observations	110,852 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Animalia › phylum Chordata › class Amphibia › order Anura › family Bufonidae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

European Toad photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-22 · Comana, Giurgiu, RO
(c) Cristina Florentina Alistar, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

European Toad photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2019-03-18 · Marysin Wawerski, Warszawa, Polska
(c) mateusz_jackowiak, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

European Toad photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-21 · 00199 Roma RM, Italia
(c) manuel_domenici, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

European Toad photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-06-29 · Kaaks, Deutschland
no rights reserved · cc0

European Toad photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-21 · 6672 LA Hemmen, Netherlands
(c) Pádraic Flood, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) · cc-by-nc-sa

European Toad photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2014-07-11 · Powiat radziejowski, Polska
(c) zaskroniec, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

European Toad photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2025-03-22 · Frankfurt-Süd, 60599 Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland
(c) Lennart Sahner, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

European Toad photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2025-03-22 · Frankfurt-Süd, 60599 Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland
(c) Lennart Sahner, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

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