Common toad
The common toad is a common frogs from the genus of the true toads within the family of the toads, which is widespread in the Palaearctic region. According to the present opinion, it is probably not a single biological species, but a complex of several taxa whose exact systematic position and delimitation is currently unclear. In the first description, Carl von Linné first named the species Rana bufo, and thus classified them as a "frog" in the genus Rana. Obscold, rarely used or regional German trivial names are turtle, common toad, lork, krott, hatch, broz, paddle, nets, Thaaschen, Toosche, Tooschkrott, Aefk, Muggle and Mummel. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof described the animal as a "blattered turtle with red eyes" in 1790, playing on the warty, apparently pox-disfigured skin. The Common Toad was voted the 2012 Lurch of the Year by the German Society for Herpetology and Terrarium Science.