Species Profile
Bufo
Toad
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassAmphibia
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Bufo lives on land near water bodies.
Nocturnal and insectivorous.
Common example of Anura.
Size & Structure
01
Short hind limbs
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Dry warty skin
03
Parotid glands present
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Brown or grey colour
Bufo — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Coelomate
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Deuterostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- External
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Well developed brain and spinal cord
- Excretory organ
- Kidneys
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Closed circulation, incomplete double
- Development type
- Indirect
- Respiratory type
- Pulmonary, cutaneous and buccopharyngeal
- Mode of excretion
- Ureotelism (adult), ammonotelism (larva)
- Circulation system
- Closed
- Skeleton structure
- Endoskeleton (bony)
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Controls insect population
Terrestrial food web member
Prey for reptiles
Economic Importance
Natural pest control
Teaching specimen
Ecological importance