Family · Bufonidae
Bufonidae
True toads
Bufonidae is the cosmopolitan family of true toads, with roughly 600 species worldwide and a particularly rich Neotropical radiation. In the northern Andes the family includes the arboreal long-snouted toads of the *Rhinella acrolopha* group (formerly the genus *Rhamphophryne*), a Colombian-Ecuadorian lineage that dwells in leaf litter and stream banks of mid-elevation cloud forest.
True toads are identified by the parotoid glands — paired skin secretions on the shoulders that contain the defensive alkaloids called bufotoxins — together with a horizontal pupil, well-developed cranial ornamentation in many species, and webbed or partially webbed feet. Neotropical bufonids include familiar lowland species of the Rhinella margaritifera group as well as the narrow-range Andean toads of the R. acrolopha group, whose species are typically endemic to single cordilleras.
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