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New Mexico Spadefoot Toad
(Spea multiplicata)

New Mexico Spadefoot Toad

Family Pelobatidae

Photo from Hammerson, 1986.
Used with permission.
Listed as Scaphiopus multiplicatus or as conspecific with Scaphiopus hammondi hammondi in some publications.

Last Updated on January 20, 2000.

New Mexico Spadefoot Toad (Spea multiplicata)   Range Map
Color Key
Description:
Maximum snout-vent length 2½". Color greenish, gray, or brown, with scattered darker spots or blotches. No lump between eyes. Wedge-shaped spade on each hind foot. Eye with vertical pupil in bright light.
Elevation Range:
Below 6000' in eastern Colorado; below 6500' in western Colorado.

New Mexico Spadefoot
(Spea multiplicata)
CountyRef. CountyRef. CountyRef. CountyRef.
Adams  Dolores *  La PlataH Pitkin 
Alamosa  Douglas  Lake  Prowers * 
Arapahoe  Eagle  Larimer  PuebloKGA1
Archuleta *  El PasoRLB1 Las AnimasH Rio Blanco 
Baca *  Elbert  LincolnBH2 Rio Grande 
BentH FremontH Logan  Routt 
Boulder  Garfield  MesaH Saguache 
Chaffee  Gilpin  Mineral  San Juan 
Cheyenne  Grand  Moffat  San MiguelH
Clear Creek  Gunnison  MontezumaH Sedgwick 
Conejos *  Hinsdale  Montrose *  Summit 
Costilla *  HuerfanoH Morgan  Teller 
CrowleyDC8 Jackson  OteroH Washington 
Custer *  Jefferson  Ouray *  Weld 
Delta *  KiowaDC8, Note2 Park  Yuma 
Denver  Kit Carson  Phillips 

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