Hurter's spadefoot toad

{{Short description|Species of amphibian}}

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| name = Hurter's spadefoot toad

| image = Scaphiopus hurterii.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group|year=2022|title=Scaphiopus hurterii |page=e.T59043A196336989|doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T59043A196336989.en|access-date=12 May 2023}}

| taxon = Scaphiopus hurterii

| authority = {{ill|John Kern Strecker|de|lt=Strecker}}, 1910

}}

Hurter's spadefoot toad or Hurter's spadefoot (Scaphiopus hurterii) is a species of American spadefoot toad (family Scaphiopodidae) found in the south central United States (Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma); its range might extend to the adjacent northern Mexico. It was once classified as a subspecies of the eastern spadefoot toad (Scaphiopus holbrookii), but it has been granted its own species status.{{cite web |url=http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Scaphiopodidae/Scaphiopus/Scaphiopus-hurterii |title=Scaphiopus hurterii Strecker, 1910 |author=Frost, Darrel R. |year=2015 |work=Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 |publisher=American Museum of Natural History |accessdate=4 January 2016}} The specific name hurterii is in honor of the Swiss-American naturalist and curator of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences, Julius Hurter.{{cite book|author1=Bo Beolens|author2=Michael Watkins|author3=Michael Grayson|title=The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZZY3BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT164|date=22 April 2013|publisher=Pelagic Publishing|isbn=978-1-907807-42-8|pages=164}}