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The temnospondyl Eryops had sturdy limbs to support its body on land Red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas) with limbs and feet specialised for climbing Japanese giant salamander (Andrias japonicus), a primitive salamander The bright colours of the common reed frog (Hyperolius viridiflavus) are typical of a toxic species Wallace's flying frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus) can parachute to ...
The numbers of species cited above follows Frost and the total number of known (living) amphibian species as of March 31, 2019, is exactly 8,000, [12] of which nearly 90% are frogs. [ 13 ] With the phylogenetic classification, the taxon Labyrinthodontia has been discarded as it is a polyparaphyletic group without unique defining features apart ...
In the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, Carl Linnaeus described the Amphibia as: [1]. Animals that are distinguished by a body cold and generally naked; stern and expressive countenance; harsh voice; mostly lurid color; filthy odor; a few are furnished with a horrid poison; all have cartilaginous bones, slow circulation, exquisite sight and hearing, large pulmonary vessels, lobate liver ...
The male caecilians have a long tube-like intromittent organ, the phallodeum, [52] which is inserted into the cloaca of the female for two to three hours. About 25% of the species are oviparous (egg-laying); the eggs are laid in terrestrial nests rather than in water and are guarded by the female.
The world’s frogs, salamanders, newts and other amphibians remain in serious trouble. A new global assessment has found that 41% of amphibian species that scientists have studied are threatened ...
Aulbath (a.k.a. Rikuo), a merman character from the video game series, Darkstalkers, by Capcom [29] Kuo-toa, "evil fish-men" from the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game [30] [31] The Murloc are a species of amphibious creatures which live in tribes in World of Warcraft [32] [33] [b] Neptuna, the mermaid-like boss in Croc: Legend of the Gobbos
The barking tree frog is the state's amphibian. ... This list of amphibians of Florida includes species native to or documented in the U.S. state of Florida. [1] [2]
[21] [22] There has been, however, no other physical indicating factors for male-male combat as in other species of amphibians, such as horns or spines. [22] Some populations do not show these sexual dimorphic traits, and in certain locations female and male bodies do not exhibit any traits with significant differences.