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title: "Giant Toad"
description: "Rhinella horribilis — Amphibiens. Rhinella horribilis is the scientific name used for populations of the cane toad or giant toad located in Mesoamerica and north-western South America when they are considered to be a separate species from Rhinella marina, a name which is then mostly restricted to Amazon basin populations."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/fr/animal/giant-toad
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Giant Toad

> Rhinella horribilis — Amphibiens. Rhinella horribilis is the scientific name used for populations of the cane toad or giant toad located in Mesoamerica and north-western South America when they are considered to be a separate species from Rhinella marina, a name which is then mostly restricted to Amazon basin populations.

- Scientific name: *Rhinella horribilis*
- Category: `amphibians` (Amphibiens)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 25406
- Wikidata: [Q26119761](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26119761)
- iNaturalist taxon: [517119](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/517119)

## Names

- en: Giant Toad
- de: Mittelamerikanische Agakröte
- es: Sapo gigante

## Countries with the most observations

CR (7064), MX (5713), CO (3325), PA (3038), HN (1045), US (938), NI (513), BZ (496), GT (426), SV (196), VE (33)

## Summary

Rhinella horribilis is the scientific name used for populations of the cane toad or giant toad located in Mesoamerica and north-western South America when they are considered to be a separate species from Rhinella marina, a name which is then mostly restricted to Amazon basin populations. R. horribilis was originally described from Mexico as Bufo horribilis before later being considered a synonym of Bufo marina and later Rhinella marina. The specific epithet horribilis has now been revived after a 2016 study argued that these populations make up two separate species.

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

## Photo

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

Photo: Daniel Estabrooks · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/91648623

## Machine access

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