Hurter's Spadefoot vs. Couch's Spadefoot
Both are big Scaphiopus spadefoots with long black spades; they meet in central and southern Texas and southwestern Oklahoma. A: A raised boss (hump) between the eyes in the Hurter's Spadefoot; flat: no boss in the Couch's Spadefoot. B: Olive, brown or greenish, often with two pale wavy lines like a lyre in the Hurter's Spadefoot; bright yellow-green to greenish, marbled or blotched with black in the Couch's Spadefoot. Couch's lives in the dry mesquite country of the far southwest of Oklahoma; Hurter's in sandy soils of the centre and east.
Open this comparison in Wildsight
Photographs via iNaturalist under Creative Commons licences; the photographers are credited on the sheet.
More comparisons
- Hurter's Spadefoot vs. Plains Spadefoot
- Couch's Spadefoot vs. Plains Spadefoot
- Couch's Spadefoot vs. Woodhouse's Toad
- Couch's Spadefoot vs. Great Plains Toad
- Couch's Spadefoot vs. Red-spotted Toad
- Sonoran Desert Toad vs. Couch's Spadefoot
- Mexican Spadefoot vs. Couch's Spadefoot
- Chihuahuan Green Toad vs. Couch's Spadefoot
- Sonoran Green Toad vs. Couch's Spadefoot
- Texas Toad vs. Couch's Spadefoot
Wildsight identifies the reptiles and amphibians of the United States. Every comparison