Surinam Toads
Pipa
Suriname toads are members of the frog genus Pipa, within the family Pipidae. They are native to northern South America and extreme southern Central America (Panama). Like other pipids, these frogs are almost exclusively aquatic.
7 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 7 known species
Suriname Toad
speciesPipa pipa
Sabana Surinam Toad
speciesPipa parva
Carvalho's Surinam Toad
speciesPipa carvalhoi
Albina Surinam Toad
speciesPipa aspera
Myers' Surinam Toad
speciesPipa myersi
Arrabal's Suriname Toad
speciesPipa arrabali
Utinga Surinam Toad
speciesPipa snethlageae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Maria Sibylla Merian — Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium (1719)
Maria Sibylla Merian · 1719 · p.194
Hindu Mythology, Vedic and Puranic
W.J. Wilkins · 1882 · p.432
Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium
Maria Sibylla Merian · 1705 · p.186
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.1329
Living Images of Plants
Otto Brunfels · 1532 · p.113
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.738
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.669
Hortus Eystettensis
Basilius Besler · 1640 · p.141
Treasury of Medical Matters of New Spain
Francisco Hernández · 1651 · p.484
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.299
Thesaurus of Medical Things of New Spain, or History of Mexican Plants, Animals, and Minerals
Francisco Hernández; Nardo Antonio Recchi (ed.) · 1651 · p.463
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Pipa in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 25460.