Guttural toad
Sclerophrys gutturalis (Power, 1927)
LCLeast Concernfrogs and toads
The guttural toad (Sclerophrys gutturalis) is a species in the family Bufonidae, order Anura. Recorded adults weigh about 38.7 g. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.
Quick facts about the guttural toad
- Weight
- 38.7 gsrc for Weight
- Length
- up to 12 cmsrc for Length
- Lifespan
- Not recorded
- Diet
- Carnivoresrc for Diet
- Main food
- arthropods, vertebratessrc for Main food
- Habitat
- forest, wetlandsrc for Habitat
- Young per litter or clutch
- 15,000 – 25,000src for Young per litter or clutch
- Reproduction
- Eggssrc for Reproduction
- Active
- Day and night (cathemeral)src for Active
- Conservation status
- Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
- Countries on record
- Not recorded
Where does the guttural toad live?
Not recorded
Where has it been introduced?
The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the guttural toad as introduced in 1 country.
Also listed for parts of: France (Reunion, invasive).
Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).
What is the guttural toad?
Sclerophrys gutturalis, the African common toad or guttural toad, is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It is found in Africa in a region stretching from Kenya west to Angola and south to South Africa. This includes southern Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Réunion, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats include forest, savanna and wetland areas. In particular, subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, dry savanna, moist savanna, temperate shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, intermittent rivers, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forest, ponds, and canals and ditches.
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Is the guttural toad endangered?
The guttural 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 guttural toad classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- classAmphibia
- orderAnura
- familyBufonidae
- genusSclerophrys
- SpeciesSclerophrys gutturalis (Power, 1927)
Synonyms Amietophrynus gutturalis, Bufo gutturalis, Bufo ngamiensis, Bufo regularis gutturalis, Bufo regularis ngamiensis, Bufo spinosus
Other names and names in other languages (26)
- African common toadEnglish
- Gutteral toadEnglish
- GorrelskurwepaddaAfrikaans
- Gewone SkurwepaddaAfrikaans
- ropucha červenonoháCzech
- Afrikanische ErdkröteGerman
- Südliche PantherkröteGerman
- Sapo Común AfricanoSpanish
- Crapaud gutturalFrench
- Crapaud guttural (Le)French
- Rospo comune africanoItalian
- ミナミヒョウヒキガエルJapanese
- keelpadDutch
- chulanyu
- Ботсванская жабаRussian
- Красноногая жабаRussian
- Sehoho se lentswe le mahwashe/lenqaSouthern Sotho
- Sigogodvolo lesibhodlakoSwati
- Rantsape wa go kurutlaTswana
- Chela ro khwaxa ro tsotsombaTsonga
- Tshiḓula tsha u hwasa tsha mukosi u hwasahoVenda
- ixoxoXhosa
- igogodeXhosa
- Ixoxo elibhodlayoXhosa
- chuleYao
- Ixoxo lembodlomaneZulu
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Relatives of the guttural toad
Other species in the same genus Sclerophrys.
African giant toad
Sclerophrys superciliaris
Arabian toad
Sclerophrys arabica
Egyptian toad
Sclerophrys regularis
Power's toad
Sclerophrys poweri
August toad
Sclerophrys pardalis
Kisolo toad
Sclerophrys kisoloensis
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Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
How big is the guttural toad?
An adult guttural toad weighs 38.7 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.
Is the guttural toad endangered?
The guttural toad is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.
What does the guttural toad eat?
Its recorded main food is arthropods and vertebrates.
Is the guttural toad an invasive species?
The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the guttural toad as introduced in 1 country: Mauritius, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.
What kind of animal is the guttural toad?
The guttural toad (Sclerophrys gutturalis) belongs to the family Bufonidae in the order Anura.
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
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Wikimedia Commons contributors. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org (each file credited to its author under its own licence). - Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS) · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-11-13
Pagad, S., Genovesi, P., Carnevali, L., Schigel, D. & McGeoch, M.A. (2018) Introducing the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species. Scientific Data 5: 170202. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.202. Country checklists published through GBIF by the IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group. - Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · 2026-11-11
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