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Great Basin Spadefoot Toad
(Spea intermontana)

Great Basin Spadefoot Toad

Family Pelobatidae

Photo by L. Livo and S. Wilcox,
from Hammerson, 1986.
Used with permission.
Listed as Scaphiopus intermontanus or Scaphiopus hammondi intermontanus in some publications.

Last Updated on January 20, 2000.

Great Basin Spadefoot Toad (Spea intermontana)   Range Map
Color Key
Description:
Less than 2½" snout-vent length. Color greenish, gray, or brown, with scattered darker spots or blotches. Soft glandular lump between eyes. Wedge-shaped spade on each hind foot. Eye with vertical pupil in bright light.
Elevation Range:
Below 7000' in western Colorado north of the Uncompahgre Plateau.

Great Basin Spadefoot
(Spea intermontana)
CountyRef. CountyRef. CountyRef. CountyRef.
Adams  Dolores  La Plata  Pitkin 
Alamosa  Douglas  Lake  Prowers 
Arapahoe  Eagle  Larimer  Pueblo 
Archuleta  El Paso  Las Animas  Rio BlancoH
Baca  Elbert  Lincoln  Rio Grande 
Bent  Fremont  Logan  Routt 
Boulder  GarfieldH MesaH Saguache 
Chaffee  Gilpin  Mineral  San Juan 
Cheyenne  Grand  MoffatH San Miguel 
Clear Creek  Gunnison  Montezuma  Sedgwick 
Conejos  Hinsdale  Montrose *  Summit 
Costilla  Huerfano  Morgan  Teller 
Crowley  Jackson  Otero  Washington 
Custer  Jefferson  Ouray  Weld 
Delta *  Kiowa  Park  Yuma 
Denver  Kit Carson  Phillips 

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