A bufonet (boo-fo-nay), a froglike species of leupai with pearlescent, color-changing skin.
Like leupaks, their tongues are prehensile— but they are solid and sticky, with clawless fingers.

Bufonet are not venomous, but poisonous; they have the ability to secrete a mutagenic toxin through their skins. When released into water, the toxin gels, forming a cloud of thick, viscous slime similar to the slime of hagfish.

Bufonet have rubbery skin, and can inflate themselves as a defense mechanism. Surprisingly, they also have the ability to spontaneously form and control spiky crystal clusters beneath their skins anywhere on the body. These are used as piercing weapons; stabbing through the skin and into anything that attempts to do them harm, delivering a shot of poison in the process. These crystal spikes can be dissolved back into their blood at will; many bufonet solidify them into spikes, spines, horns, or “hair” for decoration, leaving the rest of the body unarmed unless threatened.

Bufonet are careful to avoid accidentally stabbing friends and family of other species, and will ensure any spikes are put away before any contact.

Individual bufonet may live either in or around water, on dry land, or in trees or caves; they shift the color of their skins to suit them, either for personalization or camouflage as they see fit.