Golden toad led bachelors to attack amplectant pairs and form what has been described as a "writhing masses of toad balls". During the 1977 and 1982 seasons, males outnumbered females by over 8 to 1 at breeding pools. Each toad couple produced 200–400 eggs each week for the six-week mating period, with each egg approximately 3 mm in diameter. The eggs of the golden toad, black and tan spheres, were deposited in small pools often no more than one-inch deep. Tadpoles emerged in a matter of days, but required another four or five weeks for metamorphosis. During this period, they were highly
Mongolian toad spiders and beetles. The Mongolian toad was classed as "Bufo raddei" prior to the 2006 definition of the genus "Pseudepidalea". Other closely related species include the European green toad, "Pseudepidale viridis". Mongolian toad The Mongolian toad ("Pseudepidalea raddei"), also known as the piebald toad or Siberian sand toad, is a species of toad found in East Asia. It ranges through much of China, Mongolia, and the Russian Far East, and is also found in the northern Korean Peninsula. According to Kuzmin et al., but has never been detected in South Korea. It is particularly common in the Amur River basin