very dark colored toad??

[maplesky7]

I'm in northern Illinois and we just caught a toad. It's back is so much darker and all dark compared to the toads we usually see...it's bottom is speckled like the other toads we see but it's back is nearly black.

My camera of course the battery is not charged.


My kids are taking turns holding it now...after it pee'd on them.

I'm googling but haven't come across a dark colored toad in Ill. yet.

any thoughts?

 

[annanicole18]

i live in ohio and have seen an almost black toad! they just vary in color like everything else. its fun to see what kind of variations you can find though true browns reds and the almost blacks. i would say it was prolly just a normal little weirdo

 

[Ducklove334]

I've it's probly just an eastern toad, I've seen/cought almost black ones, I cought a SOLID black one once, it was TOTALLY blacl from head to toe!, I've seen them this fawn/blonde color, and when I was younger I cought abunch of toad tadpoles, several turned out RED

 

[maplesky7]

yeah...i'm thinking maybe it was...

http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/detail.asp?recnum=AR0006


none of the other il. species I've looked at look like it.

It looks like a regular american toad but real real dark. we just let it go...and then i read the warning and we washed our hands reeeeal good. now time for bath time.

 

[Chicks_N_Horses]

There is one in my goldfish pond now that is a bright red color! I will have to take pics of it tomorrow too.....

 

[maplesky7]

yeah...some of the descrip's say olive to red... i'd love to see pics of your red toad.