The Arizona toad (Anaxyrus microscaphus) is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It is endemic to the south-western United States, where its natural habitats are temperate lowland forests, rivers and streams, swamps, freshwater marshes, freshwater springs, ponds, open excavations, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land.

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The Arizona toad has been replaced by Woodhouse’s toad at Alamo Lake, Lake Pleasant, the Verde Valley, and Fort Mohave (lower Colorado River). The Arizona toad was until recently considered conspecific with the Arroyo toad (Anaxyrus californicus) and Mexican toad (Anaxyrus mexicanus, see Gergus 1998). No subspecies are currently recognized.

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The Arizona Toad, Anaxyrus microscaphus (see image gallery), has geographically variable coloration but is often gray and beige dorsally, with hues ranging from rust, brown, pink, to dull yellow (Behler and King 1979, Stebbins 2003, Elliott et al. 2009). Juveniles are typically salmon or light olive with reddish to reddish-brown warts.

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In southwestern Utah, Arizona toads fed upon sand crickets, beetles, true bugs, ants, bees, moth larvae, and snails.

Arizona Toad (Anaxyrus microscaphus) is a medium-sized (8 cm) warty toad that is distributed across Arizona and into neighboring California, Nevada, Utah, and New Mexico. They can be found in rocky streams in pine-oak forests or willow and cottonwood-dominated forests, or anthropogenic habitats.

The Arizona Toad is a stocky toad that is usually grey, beige, or pale yellow. This species has rough, bumpy skin and prominent parotoid glands behind the eyes.