Animal field guide
Asian common toad
Duttaphrynus melanostictus
Asian common toad carries Urban Amphibian Grit through gardens, drains, farms, and monsoon edges, surviving by combining toxin defense with flexible feeding near people.
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Amphibian · Native range keys: south_asia · Relatively common
Known for: Warty toxic skin, Nocturnal ground movement, Flexible urban tolerance, Wet-season breeding calls
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Understand the Asian common toad
Factual biology first: what this animal is like, where it lives, how it survives, and why those traits exist.
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Introduction to Asian common toad
Asian common toad carries Urban Amphibian Grit through gardens, drains, farms, and monsoon edges, surviving by combining toxin defense with flexible feeding near people.
How to identify a Asian common toad
- Warty toxic skin
- Nocturnal ground movement
- Flexible urban tolerance
- Wet-season breeding calls
Why Asian common toad are interesting
- They are common around houses, gardens, farms, and disturbed habitats.
- Skin glands produce toxins that discourage many predators.
- They gather near temporary water to breed after rain.
- They eat many insects and other small invertebrates at night.
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Adaptations and biological abilities
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Why does Asian common toad behave this way?
- Warty toxic skin
- Nocturnal ground movement
- Flexible urban tolerance
- Wet-season breeding calls
They are mostly nocturnal, hiding by day in damp shelters and emerging after dusk or rain to feed and call.
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Why Native range keys: south_asia?
Habitat: Native range keys: south_asia, southeast_asia, east_asia. Asian common toads live in forests, farms, villages, gardens, drains, and wet-season pools across warm parts of Asia.
Native range: Native range keys: south_asia, southeast_asia, east_asia. Asian common toads live in forests, farms, villages, gardens, drains, and wet-season pools across warm parts of Asia.
Native range
Natural range, not this specific capture location.
Native range keys: south_asia, southeast_asia, east_asia. Asian common toads live in forests, farms, villages, gardens, drains, and wet-season pools across warm parts of Asia.
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Why this diet?
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Activity, rest, and lifespan
They are mostly nocturnal, hiding by day in damp shelters and emerging after dusk or rain to feed and call.
Many wild toads live several years when moisture and breeding pools remain available. Survival depends on avoiding dehydration and repeated seasonal hazards.
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Asian common toad reproduction
Females lay strings of eggs in ponds, ditches, or temporary water. Tadpoles develop quickly when warm shallow water remains long enough.
Males are usually smaller and call during breeding periods, while females grow larger and carry eggs. The differences become clearest around wet-season breeding.
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Predators, threats, and defense
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Conservation and rarity
Rarity: Relatively common · 9/100. AnimalDex canonical rarity score: 9/100, maintained by the live indexed species profile.
- Observe from a respectful distance and avoid changing the animal's behavior.
- Do not block feeding, shelter, nesting, or travel routes.
- Use a live camera capture without handling or staging wildlife.
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Where to find them
Where to find Asian common toad
To find Asian common toad in the wild, focus on the exact habitat patches that match its body design and daily behavior, not just the broad country where it exists. You usually do better by working one good piece of habitat inside native range keys: south_asia, southeast_asia, east_asia. Asian common toads live in forests, farms, villages, gardens, drains, and wet-season pools across warm parts of Asia. than by covering too much ground.
- Forest edge, canopy gaps, fruiting trees, or shaded trails where cover and food meet
- Headlands, reef edges, island colonies, tidal channels, or productive coastal water
- Protected habitat blocks within native range keys: south_asia, southeast_asia, east_asia. Asian common toads live in forests, farms, villages, gardens, drains, and wet-season pools across warm parts of Asia.
Animal field guide
Asian common toad
Asian common toad carries Urban Amphibian Grit through gardens, drains, farms, and monsoon edges, surviving by combining toxin defense with flexible feeding near people.
Native range
Natural range, not this capture location
Native range keys: south_asia, southeast_asia, east_asia. Asian common toads live in forests, farms, villages, gardens, drains, and wet-season pools across warm parts of Asia.
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Dominance
19
Speed
23
Size
11
Intelligence
18
Rarity
9%
Total
80
Size scale
Scientific name
Duttaphrynus melanostictus
Category
Amphibian
Habitat
Native range keys: south_asia, southeast_asia, east_asia. Asian common toads live in forests, farms, villages, gardens, drains, and wet-season pools across warm parts of Asia.
Rarity
Relatively common · 9/100
Native range
Native range keys: south_asia, southeast_asia, east_asia. Asian common toads live in forests, farms, villages, gardens, drains, and wet-season pools across warm parts of Asia.
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