Question

What is the difference between frog and toad?

Answer 1

Frog and toad belong to the same class Amphibians and are placed which means that have two types of life: in the beginning, when they are in larva form, they are aquatic and when they reach adult stage they will semi aquatic or terrestrial. Both of them are cold blooded. Their physical appearance is almost alike and the feeding habitats are similar too.

Complete answer:

Frog	Toad
Eggs are laid as cluster	Eggs are laid in long chain fashion
The tadpoles are slimmer and appear gold in colour.	The tadpoles are chunky and they appear black in colour.
Crawling is very rare for a frog	Move around by crawling unlike frogs
The appearance is lean and slender	Shorter than frogs and appear stubby
The skin is smooth and moist	Drier and bumpy skin
Spend most of the time in nearby water bodies.	They are adapted to live on dry land
Presence of webbed feet to adapt with the semi aquatic nature.	They do not have webbed feet.
They have longer legs and can jump higher and further than toads.	They possess shorter legs compared to frogs.
True frog comes from the Ranidae family.	The true toad belongs to the Bufonidae family.
The frog is usually active in the daytime and at night.	While a toad is nocturnal and sleeps throughout the day.

Notes:
Amphibia is divided into three orders which are
1. Apoda (Gymnophiona or Caecilia)
Apoda means organisms without legs.
Scales are also present.
Also known as blind worms.
2. Urodela (Caudata)
organisms characterised by the presence of a tail.
elongated body with four equally sized limbs.
3. Anura (Salientia)
They have four limbs where the front limbs are elongated and are adapted to jump.
The tail is present only in the larval stage and is lost in the adults.