A two word answer is required. Bufo calamita is the scientific name for which amphibian, rare in Britain?
Bufo (with the exception of the introduced cane toad), and New Guinea and Oceania. Two species are found in the British Isles: the common toad ("Bufo bufo"), and the natterjack toad, ("Bufo calamita"). The former is found almost everywhere in Great Britain, but not in Ireland. The natterjack, which differs in its shorter limbs with nearly free toes (which are so short, the toad never hops but proceeds in a running gait) and in usually possessing orange or red warts, green eyes, and a pale-yellow line along the middle of the back, is local in England, the south-west of Scotland, and
Bufo Bufo Bufo is a large genus of about 150 species of true toads in the amphibian family Bufonidae. True toads have in common stocky figures and short legs, which make them relatively poor jumpers. Their dry skin is thick and warty. Behind their eyes, "Bufo" species have wart-like structures, the parotoid glands. These glands distinguish the true toads from all other tailless amphibians. They secrete a fatty, white poisonous substance which acts as a deterrent to predators. Ordinary, handling of toads is not dangerous, and, contrary to folk belief, does not cause warts. The poison of most if not all