He advises various government agencies, including the Forest Service and the Marine Corps, about minimizing and avoiding impacts to the arroyo toad and its habitat, and helps agencies to comply with the Arroyo Toad Recovery Plan. Well, it depends. The technical term for all frogs and toads is anurans. Often there is not a lot of difference between the two, but many people try to make a distinction between frogs and toads. Generally, toads are more terrestrial than frogs, meaning toads spend most of their time on land, while frogs spend it in water.
Toads are often bumpier, rougher- skinned, and drier to the touch.
But this is not always true. There are rainforest frogs, for example, that spend most of their lives in the trees. In most anurans, the reproductive cycle is integrally tied to water. Until recently, the arroyo toad was considered a subspecies of the southwestern toad. It was classified as Bufo microscaphus californicus .