Gulf Coast Toad (Bufo valliceps) Juvenile

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=168 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="041a11c3.png"> <div> Abundant summer rain enables armies of tiny juvenile Gulf coast toads to emerge from the puddles of standing water where they were born. Although they're not seen deep within the swamp, the surrounding bank is full of them in late summer. This little guy was less than an inch long and required a bit of wrangling to get this pose.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id399.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cypress Fall Foliage (Taxodium distichum"><U>Next</U></A> <A HREF="id378.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Blue Dasher Dragonfly (Pachydiplax longi"><U>Previous</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id155.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Alligator Bayou: A Louisiana Wetland"><U>Back to thumbs</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#99CC00" FACE="Arial" ><B>Clay Coleman</B></FONT>     <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#CCCC66" FACE="Arial" >|   <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Clay Coleman"><U><B>home</B></U></A></FONT></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> <IMG SRC="040f4010.png" border=0 width="500" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Gulf Coast Toad (Bufo valliceps) Juvenile</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="c37bbd10.jpg" border=0 width="699" height="465" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> </tr></table></body>