[2] The specific epithet couchii is in honor of American naturalist Darius Nash Couch, who collected the first specimen while on a personal expedition to northern Mexico to collect plant, mineral, and animal specimens for the Smithsonian Institution.

[4] Couch's spadefoot toad is native to the United States southwest of southeastern Colorado and central Oklahoma, northern Mexico and the Baja peninsula.

During reproduction, the male mounts the female and releases sperm to fertilize the eggs, which are deposited in the pools of water in the form of a floating mass.

Tadpoles will eat a variety of foods, such as small insects near the pool and algae, which they scrape off rocks.

Tadpoles gather in wriggling masses, stir up the muck on the bottom of the pool, and filter out the organic nutrients.