Description
The golden toad was one of more than 500 species in the family Bufonidae — the "true toads". B. periglenes inhabited northern Costa Rica’s Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, distributed over an area of roughly 10 square kilometres (3.9 sq mi) at an average elevation of 1,500 metres (4,900 ft).
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