Family Bufonidae
Rhinella marina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Figure 2A
Materials examined. PUERTO RICO – Arecibo • Mata de Plátano Field Station and Nature Reserve; 18.414, -66.729; 151 m above sea level; Justin Matthew Bernstein, Camilo Andrés Calderón-Acevedo, Pedro Ivo Mônico, Lázaro Willian Viñola-Lopez, J. Angel Soto-Centeno; Individual 1 – found in leaf litter on south side of field station at 11:30 PM.
Identification. One adult individual, diagnosed by its large size, enlarged parotid glands, and drier, warty skin distinguish this amphibian from all others on the island. It is easily distinguished from Peltophryne lemur by its shorter rostrum that is not upturned.