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Bufo gargarizans
Rare visitor: recorded only occasionally in this country
Asiatic Toad (Bufo gargarizans) is a robust warty East Asian toad formerly classified as a subspecies of Bufo bufo. Identification should combine body shape, skin texture, colour pattern, toe structure and locality because related frogs can be extremely similar. Claims are limited to the species accounts opened for this batch (Wikipedia, general species account). Field identification should remain cautious when diagnostic measurements or clear photographs are unavailable.
It is endemic to East Asia; species-level locality and ecological details beyond the opened account are omitted. Information absent from those species-level sources is omitted rather than borrowed from relatives. Japanese occurrence follows the site's catalogue and the opened distribution account, without using IUCN conservation material (Wikipedia, general species account; Wildlife of Japan occurrence records). This wording keeps gaps in the available species evidence explicit rather than concealing them.