Asiatic toad

The Asiatic toad (Bufo gargarizans) is a bufonid of East Asia, ranging through most of mainland China, the Russian Far East and Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula and Japan's Miyako Islands. Adults measure 95–105 mm, females exceeding males, with warty skin and large parotoid glands that yield a white secretion. It occupies grassland, farmland, scrub and settlement edges below about 1,500 m, sheltering by day and taking insects and other invertebrates by sit-and-wait after dusk. Breeding females lay 2,000–8,000 eggs in gelatinous strings. The IUCN assessed it as Least Concern in 2021.