Bell's toad
Ascaphus truei Stejneger, 1899
LCLeast Concernfrogs and toads
The bell's toad (Ascaphus truei) is a species in the family Ascaphidae, order Anura. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.
Quick facts about the bell's toad
- Weight
- Not recorded
- Length
- up to 5 cmsrc for Length
- Lifespan
- Not recorded
- Diet
- Invertivoresrc for Diet
- Longest recorded lifespan
- 20 years
- Main food
- arthropodssrc for Main food
- Habitat
- Not recorded
- Young per litter or clutch
- 28 – 96src for Young per litter or clutch
- Reproduction
- Eggssrc for Reproduction
- Active
- At night (nocturnal)src for Active
- Conservation status
- Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
- Countries on record
- Not recorded
What eats the bell's toad?
Species recorded in published studies and collections.
Each pair is recorded by at least two independent datasets. A record shows the animal was seen or found to have eaten the other, including scavenged carcasses and young animals; it does not say how often. Compiled by Global Biotic Interactions (CC0 1.0).
References for these records
- ASCAPHUS TRUEI (Tailed Frog). PREDATION. 2001. Herpetological Review 32(2): 100-100
- Karraker, N. (2001). ASCAPHUS TRUEI (Tailed Frog). PREDATION. Herpetological Review 32(2): 100-100
Where does the bell's toad live?
Not recorded
Is the bell's toad endangered?
The bell's toad is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.
- LCLeast Concern
- NTNear Threatened
- VUVulnerable
- ENEndangered
- CRCritically Endangered
- EWExtinct in the Wild
- EXExtinct
Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species. What the categories mean.
How is the bell's toad classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- classAmphibia
- orderAnura
- familyAscaphidae
- genusAscaphus
- SpeciesAscaphus truei Stejneger, 1899
Synonyms Ascaphus truei californicus, Ascaphus truei truei
Other names and names in other languages (26)
- American bell toadEnglish
- American bell toadEnglish
- American Discoglossoid toadEnglish
- American Discoglossoid toadEnglish
- American ribbed toadEnglish
- American ribbed toadEnglish
- American tailed frogEnglish
- Coastal tailed frogEnglish
- Coastal tailed frogEnglish
- Pacific tailed frogEnglish
- Pacific tailed frogEnglish
- Tailed frogEnglish
- Tailed frogEnglish
- Western tailed frogEnglish
- ocasatka americkáCzech
- SchwanzfroschGerman
- Rana con Cola OccidentalSpanish
- grenouille-à-queue côtièreFrench
- farkosbékaHungarian
- オガエルJapanese
- StaartkikkerDutch
- ogończak amerykańskiPolish
- ГладконогRussian
- Хвостатая лягушкаRussian
- Kuyruklu kurbağaTurkish
- 尾蟾Chinese
Relatives of the bell's toad
Other species in the same genus Ascaphus.
Inland tailed frog
Ascaphus montanus
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
Is the bell's toad endangered?
The bell's toad is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.
What does the bell's toad eat?
Its recorded main food is arthropods.
What kind of animal is the bell's toad?
The bell's toad (Ascaphus truei) belongs to the family Ascaphidae in the order Anura.
What eats the bell's toad?
Animals recorded preying on the bell's toad include garden snake. The records are compiled by Global Biotic Interactions from published studies; each pair is reported by at least two datasets.
Sources and how to cite this page
Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.
- AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits · CC BY 4.0 · v1
Oliveira, B.F., São-Pedro, V.A., Santos-Barrera, G., Penone, C. & Costa, G.C. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Scientific Data 4: 170123. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.123. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4644424.v5 - Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf - Wikimedia Commons · per file (CC0 / public domain / CC BY green, CC BY-SA amber, anything else not displayed) · 2026-11-11
Wikimedia Commons contributors. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org (each file credited to its author under its own licence). - Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI): interpreted data products · CC0 1.0 · 0.11
Poelen, J.H., Simons, J.D. & Mungall, C.J. (2014) Global Biotic Interactions: an open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics 24: 148–159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2014.08.005. Data: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22691479, with each record's original reference. - Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · 2026-11-11
Wikidata contributors. Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org (data retrieved via the Wikidata Query Service).
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