Rare. Color grayish or bluish with small, red spots. Skin moist. Parotoid glands not obvious. Raised bump between eyes. Eye pupils vertically elliptical. Dark spade on bottom of foot rounded. Call a short snore. 
Arkansas Herpetological Atlas 2019
This species is represented by 16 records from 4 sources: 9 museum (
), 0 literature (
), 0 research (
), and 7 observation (
). It has been museum vouchered for 3 of 75 counties (), with 1 additional counties having other forms of reported occurrence (). Years of collection range from 1978 to 2017.
This species has been reported from four localities of the Arkansas River floodplain. The first specimens collected in 1978 from Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge, Pope County, were initially published with an incorrect identification as Scaphiopus hurterii (Turnipseed, 1980; Plummer and Turnipseed, 1982). Reexamination of other historical Scaphiopodidae records from the Arkansas Valley may be warranted to confirm identifications. Detection of this species is difficult, so further surveys are needed to discover additional occurrences along the Arkansas River.
