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Bufo calmita
Attractive toad with proportionately short limbs and rather flattened body. Upper body usually uniformly olive-brown or sandy with conspicuous warts and diagnostic yellow dorsal stripe; underside greyish. Walks rather than hops from danger. Eye golden coloured with horizontal pupil.
Favours shallow, often brackish or seasonally dry pools for breeding. Otherwise found in rather dry habitats; burrows well in loose soil. Occurs Iberia and SW France.
Spotted on Apr 3, 2012
Submitted on Apr 7, 2012
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