Toad ID Please

[Angel Carrion]

Hey anyone know what species of toad this is? A friend of mine accidentally clipped him with a weed-wacker almost a week ago (note the toad's stomach and semi-mangled foot) and I was only able to catch him today. When I first saw him a few days ago at night I thought he was an unusually large Fowler's toad but today with the light I can see he is not.
Also, anyone wager a guess as to what the small white thing is? I pulled it out of the bump on the toad's back. Also, any guesses as to the cause of the bump? The white thing doesn't look like a tip of a claw nor a tooth. It's like a pointed Phillip's head screwdriver (the one people call a star head screwdriver).
Thoughts and comments are much appreciated

 

[Angel Carrion]

Realized the belly shot hadn't gone through.

 

[Angel Carrion]

More shots

 

[Angel Carrion]

More shots

 

[Yvonne G]

Bufo boreas halophilus ??


(I LOVE Keebler Club crackers!!)

 

[Yvonne G]

Anaxyrus americanus

http://www.paherps.com/herps/frogs-toads/american_toad/

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Yeah, i was right!
Told you, Angel.
Fanfare!!!!
Just found this thread, lots more pictures to confirm what i said to you.
Poor toad!
But really a super specimen.
Not sure what the plastic thing is, looks like a dart from a toy gun but too small, I think.
Again, poor toad.

 

[Angel Carrion]

That's what I was thinking, but it doesn't look 100% like the eastern American toad. I'm thinking maybe he's a EAT mixed with the wood toad. I read that can happen. Or maybe he's just a color variant.

 

[Angel Carrion]

Any ideas about the bump? I'm thinking it's either swelling from whatever the white thing is (which if so, why would it present as a pronounced bump instead of how swelling normally presents) or botfly. That's what I'm worried about. Botfly larvae.

 

[MPRC]

Poor baby. Toads are really resilient, but that foot looks pretty terrible. I believe you can do diluted chlorhexadine soaks on amphibians, but don't quote me one it (just suggesting it as a starting point for research)

As far as the bump I can't really tell what I am looking at - but I know bot flies have an air hole to breathe from, maybe a close examination would reveal that. If you gently squeeze on it does anything happen?

 

[Angel Carrion]

Poor baby. Toads are really resilient, but that foot looks pretty terrible. I believe you can do diluted chlorhexadine soaks on amphibians, but don't quote me one it (just suggesting it as a starting point for research)

As far as the bump I can't really tell what I am looking at - but I know bot flies have an air hole to breathe from, maybe a close examination would reveal that. If you gently squeeze on it does anything happen?

When I gently push it or prod it, it seems to pain him. He arches his back inward slightly and moves away. I did notice a tiny bit of blood on the bump. Not causing a stream or a drip, it's just there. Like if you scratched yourself lightly enough to draw blood but only a bit the size of a pin head.
I'm thinking the foot might need to be amputated, but for right now I'm going to let it be and we will see.
I'm attempting research online on medical treatments for injured toads but the only info I've found so far says to either wait and see, let them be, or take them to a vet. All fine and dandy, but I need more info than wait and see, I'm not going to let him die outside by a passing cat (one of my neighbors breeds cats out of control and they patrol the neighborhood. I've saved quite a number of baby birds and toads and such from them in the past. Sometimes I'm in time, other times I'm only in time to grab them and put them somewhere dark and warm to die in peace) and I have no extra money to spare for a vet visit because I'm rehabbing two turtles that are sucking up all my money. So my brain is going "come on, internet people! Give me an inch, that's all I need!" Haha.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

This is a BUFO toad. They can survive a nuclear strike. He'll be fine. They have no predators....except weed eaters.

 

[Angel Carrion]

This is a BUFO toad. They can survive a nuclear strike. He'll be fine. They have no predators....except weed eaters.

Do you mean my toad is a bufo toad? I'll have to look that up but I don't think he's a cane toad. We don't have those here in PA. I know they're invasive over in Australia because people are stupid and brought them over, but as far as I am aware PA doesn't have any, natural or invasive.

 

[Angel Carrion]

Wait, is the bufo toad the cane toad? The things I've read about the problem in Australia uses the two names interchangeably so I thought they were the same but I just came across an article that pointed out the differences between bufo toads and cane toads.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

BUFO is also called a cane toad.
I do not know how widely spread they are and I can't see your toad easily on my phone.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I'm sticking with Eastern American Toad.

 

[Angel Carrion]

Either way I don't think it really matters, I wanted to know more for my own curiosity than anything else.
He's a toad. Most likely native to my area. Watch out for the poison glands behind the eyes if they exude white stuff. Wash hands before handling to protect absorbent skin from my natural oils. Wash hands after to protect myself and my animals from potential excretions from toad.
He's a toad. I don't think there is any specific care to his species beyond information I can find for all native toads pretty much.

 

[Angel Carrion]

So I set him up his own hospital tank with moistened paper towels and a small pile of moss to burrow in if he wants. The coral pieces are around the water dish for helping him enter/exit the water. I threw a couple mealworms in there and a could worms. Don't know if he ate any because I ended up needing to leave & go somewhere & when I came back I didn't see them, but they could very well be hiding in the moss or elsewhere

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Good job.
He certainly looks happy enough in the water.

 

[Angel Carrion]

Good job.
He certainly looks happy enough in the water.

He stayed in it all night. I had to take him out of it this morning. The water stayed at the proper temp all night because I had it under a mercury vapor bulb (temp gun readings said fluctuating between 79-83F). So my night is his day, and my day is his night. I'm doing it this way because I only have the one bulb and it's currently being used by my turtles hospital tank. So she gets it in the day, and he gets it during the night.
Pretty sure I'm gonna wear this bulb out before the time I would need to change it to maintain proper UVB levels, haha.