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title: "Cane Toad"
description: "Rhinella marina — Amphibians. The cane toad (Rhinella marina), also known as the giant neotropical toad or marine toad, is a large, terrestrial true toad native to South and mainland Central America, but which has been introduced to various islands throughout Oceania and the Caribbean, as well as Northern Australia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/cane-toad
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Cane Toad

> Rhinella marina — Amphibians. The cane toad (Rhinella marina), also known as the giant neotropical toad or marine toad, is a large, terrestrial true toad native to South and mainland Central America, but which has been introduced to various islands throughout Oceania and the Caribbean, as well as Northern Australia.

- Scientific name: *Rhinella marina*
- Category: `amphibians` (Amphibians)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 33178
- Wikidata: [Q321087](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q321087)
- iNaturalist taxon: [553515](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/553515)

## Names

- en: Cane Toad
- de: Aga-Kröte
- es: Sapo gigante
- fr: Crapaud buffle
- nl: Reuzenpad
- pl: Aga

## Countries with the most observations

AU (10179), US (7584), PH (2110), PR (1818), PE (1324), BR (1033), GF (794), TT (781), FJ (691), EC (598), CO (576), DO (298)

## Summary

The cane toad (Rhinella marina), also known as the giant neotropical toad or marine toad, is a large, terrestrial true toad native to South and mainland Central America, but which has been introduced to various islands throughout Oceania and the Caribbean, as well as Northern Australia. It is a member of the genus Rhinella, which includes many true toad species found throughout Central and South America, but it was formerly assigned to the genus Bufo.
A fossil toad (specimen UCMP 41159) from the La Venta fauna of the late Miocene in Colombia is morphologically indistinguishable from modern cane toads from northern…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_toad

## Photo

![Cane Toad](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/cane-toad/medium.jpg)

Photo: Brodie and Yasmin · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/102232195

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/cane-toad?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).