I looked at this earlier today and was going to say it was Bufo woodhousii australis, but the seeming lack of cranial crests in the picture and time constraints didn't allow a reply. Your follow up post stating there are indeed no crests only adds to my confusion... are you certain there are none, maybe ill-defined A description of the belly(spotted/not spotted), throat(light/dark), color along/near the back that may not be apparent in the photo etc. Woodhousii are known to hybridize with many other species in their range so it's possible you just might have stumbled across a mutt.



Sorry for not having a concrete answer, there just might not be one in this case. Perhaps posting the question in the toad forum may produce a better answer.



Gerry

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• what toad is this? - varanid, Sun Jul 18 21:01:14 2010
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• RE: additional description: - GerryG, Mon Jul 19 18:24:06 2010
• RE: additional description: - varanid, Mon Jul 19 19:29:21 2010