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Examples
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A juvenile black-spined toad (Bufo melanostictus) was spotted by keen-eyed Hawker Pacific ground crew at the international airport, hidden inside timber packaging while they were unloading empty gas cylinders on board a flight from West Papua.
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He says the culprit is in fact the asian black-spined toad.
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"Nobody's really looked at the impacts of the black-spined toad, [but] presumably because it's smaller, the effects won't be quite so dramatic," he said.
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Three other Australian cane toad researchers have seen the photo and agree it is an asian black-spined toad.
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"People are incredibly bad at identifying frogs in general and cane toads in particular, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if people were confused between a black-spined toad and the cane toad.
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