The eastern spadefoot has a distinctive call, usually emitted from underwater and often continuing all night.

Among the tadpoles of the eastern spadefoot, shoaling occurs only when the water level in the pond is decreasing.

Sometimes, as in the eastern spadefoot of Europe and south-west Asia, tadpoles form large groups during the final phase of their development.

The Banded Newt and the Eastern Spadefoot Toad are critically endangered.

Rare, endangered and extinct species of the Sound include the Eastern spadefoot, a rare, toadlike amphibian that hasn't been recorded in the area since 1935.

Eastern spadefoot toad (Pelobates syriacus)

It was once classified as a subspecies of the eastern spadefoot toad, (Scaphiopus holbrookii), but it has been granted its own species status.

Eastern Spadefoot, Scaphiopus holbrookii (Harlan, 1835)

The eastern spadefoot is a plump toad with a large head with a flat topped skull, large, protruding eyes and vertical slit-like pupils.

Eastern Spadefoot Toad (Pelobates syriacus)

Scaphiopus holbrookii, commonly known as the Eastern spadefoot, is a species of spadefoot endemic to North America.

The eastern spadefoot is nocturnal and returns to the same lair each night when it has finished foraging for molluscs, spiders, insects and other small arthropods.

The eastern spadefoot is considered of "Least concern" by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Some of the more interesting creatures to inhabit the park are the Gray fox, Six-lined Racerunner, Virginia Opossum, tiger beetle, Eastern Spadefoot Toad, and antlion.

Pelobates syriacus, the eastern spadefoot or Syrian spadefoot, is a species of toad in the family Pelobatidae, native to an area extending from Eastern Europe to Western Asia.

When surveys discovered two species listed as endangered in the state, the Eastern spadefoot toad and the vesper sparrow, as well as a threatened species, the blue-spotted salamander, Lowe's redrew its plans.

Eastern Spadefoot Toads (Leptobrachium) is a genus of the Megophryidae family in the order Anura, and are found in southern China, India and islands of the Sunda Shelf.

The eastern spadefoot is native to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Macedonia, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Syria and Turkey.

The Eastern Spadefoot Toad (Pelobates syriacus syriacus or Pelobates transcaucasicus), also called Syrian Spadefoot Toad, is critically endangered and is locally extinct in Jordan.

The site also contains five additional reptile and amphibian species which are identified as Species of Special Concern in New York State (i.e., marbled salamander, Eastern spadefoot, spotted turtle, Eastern box turtle, and Eastern hognose snake).

The eastern spadefoot can be distinguished from the western spadefoot (Pelobates cultripes) by the colour of the spade which is black in the latter, and from the common spadefoot (Pelobates fuscus) by the fact that its head is not domed.

The range of eastern spadefoot is limited by mean annual temperature and rainfall (the species does not live in the areas with insufficient summer temperature and in areas with a high rainfall level), but the northern distribution limit may additionally depend on the distribution of common spadefoot.

Pelobates syriacus, the eastern spadefoot or Syrian spadefoot, is a species of toad in the family Pelobatidae, native to an area extending from Eastern Europe to Western Asia.

The Eastern Spadefoot Toad (Pelobates syriacus syriacus or Pelobates transcaucasicus), also called Syrian Spadefoot Toad, is critically endangered and is locally extinct in Jordan.

Eastern spadefoot toad (Pelobates syriacus)

Eastern Spadefoot Toad (Pelobates syriacus)

The Eastern Spadefoot Toad (Pelobates syriacus syriacus or Pelobates transcaucasicus), also called Syrian Spadefoot Toad, is critically endangered and is locally extinct in Jordan.