Rhinella bella
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Beautiful Cane Toad
This species was split from Rhinella horribilis in 2024. The name "bella", meaning "beautiful", was chosen to contrast with the name "horribilis" that some toad-hater must have chosen earlier.
Online references:
- Rhinella bella account on AmphibiaWeb
- Rhinella bella account on iNaturalist
- Rhinella bella account on Amphibian Species of the World
- Rhinella bella account on Anfibios del Ecuador
- Pablo A Menéndez-Guerrero, Sueny P Lima dos Santos, María-José Salazar-Nicholls, David M Green, and Santiago R Ron, 2024. Cryptic diversity in toads of the Rhinella marina species group (Anura, Bufonidae) with a subjectively beautiful new species from Western Ecuador
Printed references:
- Coloma, L.A. and Duellman, W.E. 2025. Amphibians of Ecuador, Volume IV