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Spadefoot
Spadefoot Spade"foot`, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any species of burrowing toads of the genus Scaphiopus, esp. S. Holbrookii, of the Eastern United States; -- called also spade toad.

Meaning of Spadefoots from wikipedia

- western spadefoot toad (Spea hammondii) has a rounded "spade". Spadefoots are not true toads and should therefore simply be called spadefoots. Couch's...
- Look up spadefoot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Spadefoot may refer to the following toads: Scaphiopodidae, a family, the American spadefoot toads...
- their burrows for breeding, although unlike other spadefoots (Scaphiopus spp.), Great Basin spadefoots do breed during periods of no rainfall. The stimulus...
- amphibian commonly referred to as the North American spadefoots, southern spadefoots, or eastern spadefoot toads. They differ greatly from true toads (those...
- of the key developmental gene nodal, which may be part of the reason spadefoots are able to develop so quickly and show so much phenotypic plasticity...
- Eastern spadefoot or Eastern spadefoot toad may refer to: Scaphiopus holbrookii or eastern spadefoot, a toad found in North America Pelobates syriacus...
- American spadefoot toads, which are native to North America. The family is small, comprising only eleven different species. The American spadefoot toads...
- The European spadefoot toads are a family of frogs, the Pelobatidae, with only one extant genus Pelobates, containing six species. They are native to...
- al. “Upland Movement Patterns and Habitat Selection of Adult Eastern Spadefoots (Scaphiopus holbrookii) at Cape Cod National Seas****.” Journal of Herpetology...
- According to David Pfenning's lab at the University of North Carolina, Desert spadefoots appear able to not only adapt their bodies to a carnivorous diet (Shorter...