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Original - A male golden toad. The species has been considered extinct since around 1989, part of a world-wide decline in amphibian populations.
Edit - Dust, dirt, and scanning artifacts removed.
Reason
This one may be a little controversial. Yes, the quality is not sky-high, but this is one of those cases where we should be happy with slightly substandard quality- this species is extinct. We're never going to get another photo of it, and this is by far the best one online, never mind the best free one. I think this comfortably meets the featured picture criteria.
Articles in which this image appears
Golden toad, Bufo, Decline in amphibian populations, frog, extinction, holocene extinction, amphibian, others. It is used in hundreds of articles because of presence in templates.
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Amphibians
Creator
Charles H. Smith

Promoted File:Bufo periglenes2.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 15:28, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]