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toad (see Karttunen, Molina, and attestations); some attestations translate this as "frog," but there is another word for frog, calatl; the cacatl is apparently a toad; technically, all toads are frogs, but toads often have a warty appearance, shorter legs, and they are less likely to live in water (SW)
See an image that represents tamazolin in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
See the Digital Florentine Codex for a painting of a tamazolin.
The Huiquipedia gives the genus as Bufonidae. It also provides a photograph.
motlatlalia tlaltzotzontli ipan cacate tamaçolme vnteme = they were seated on a wall; on it were two frogs
Yn iquac ye omiqui nima ytec quicalaquique pipa yhuan cocohua tamaçolime caxtil mizto çaço nepapa yolcatl. = Una vez que murió, luego lo metieron dentro de una pipa junto con culebras, sapos, gallo, gato y cualquier otra variedad de animal. (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
yhuan mictlan mapiluhuaya quitohuaya quitenehuaya cohuatl tamaçoli tlalticapac moquetzaya temachtiaya = Y señalaba con el dedo al infierno y decía: culebra, sapo. Parado sobre la tierra, enseñaba. (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)