Dixie Valley toad

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Robyn Carlo/USFWS
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Public Domain
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Dixie Valley toads are found only in a hot-spring fed wetland in Dixie Valley, northeast of Fallon, Nevada. Dixie Valley toads were emergency listed as an endangered species in April 2022. Primary threats include geothermal development, disease, predation by other non-native frog species, groundwater pumping for human and agricultural use and climate change.
Subject tags
Amphibians
Endangered and/or Threatened species
Natural resource conservation