spadefoot
IPA: spˈeɪdfʊt
noun
- Any member of several groups of burrowing toads, with a spadelike appendage on the hind legs.
- Scaphiopodidae spp. (American spadefoot toads)
- Borneophrys (Edwardina's spadefoot toads)
- Pelobates (European spadefoot toads)
- Notaden (Australian spadefoots)
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Examples of "spadefoot" in Sentences
- The American spadefoot toads are terrestrial when not under ground.
- The common spadefoot grows to a length of approximately for females.
- This projection enables spadefoot toads to dig in loose soils with ease.
- The ferns, moss and leaf cover there shelter salamanders and spadefoot toads.
- I should really be seeing the western spadefoot toad, not some advertisement.
- There are two spadefoot species in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona and California.
- The influence of parasite infection on mating success in spadefoot toads, Scaphiopus couchi.
- Plains spadefoot toad Scaphiopus bombifrons also occurs (Alberta Provincial Parks Service, 1989).
- But one parasite positively revels in the spadefoot life, a worm named Pseudodiplorchis americanus.
- Yet, half of spadefoot toads carry the monogenean Pseudodiplorchis, and each toad carries an average of five.
- It is the spadefoot toad Scaphiopus couchi, and it is sleeping away the eleven-month drought that dominates every year.
- There are, in fact, hardly any parasites that have gotten a foothold inside the spadefoot, and most of them can only mount feeble infections.
- She is currently working on an undergraduate research project where she is using mate choice tests to determine call rate preferences in female spadefoot toads.
- The Sonoran Desert toad, desert spadefoot, northern casque-headed treefrog and others survive in the desert because of their abilities to excavate burrows as much as three feet deep where they spend nine or ten months at a time.
- Mr. GASCON: There are a couple of other species of frogs that are in a particular group of animals that had been perhaps the most threatened by all of these different impacts that we've had on the environment: the spadefoot toads.
- There are 18 species of fish, 6 being endangered in Bulgaria including the rare asp Aspius aspius, 15 species of reptiles including the Aesculapian snake Elaphe longissimus, and 12 amphibians; one, the eastern spadefoot Pelobates syriacus, recently discovered in Bulgaria for the first time, is listed in the Red Book for Bulgaria.