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Pseudis paradoxa, known as the paradoxical frog or shrinking frog, is a species of hylid frog from South America. [2] Its name refers to the very large—up to 27 cm (11 in) long—tadpole (the world's longest), which in turn "shrinks" during metamorphosis into an ordinary-sized frog, only about a quarter or third of its former length.
The tawny frogmouth was first described in 1801 by the English naturalist John Latham. [4] Its specific epithet is derived from Latin strix 'owl' and oides 'form'. Tawny frogmouths belong to the frogmouth genus Podargus, which includes the two other species of frogmouths found within Australia, the marbled frogmouth and the Papuan frogmouth. [5]
Image credits: ghgjgmhngbfghc There are over 7,000 frog and toad species on planet Earth, and they have been around for more than 200 million years, at least as long as the dinosaurs!. The world's ...
Archaeobatrachia - four families, seven genera, 27 species Family Genera Common names Example species Example photo Ascaphidae (Fejérváry, 1923) 1: Tailed frogs: Tailed frog (Ascaphus truei) Bombinatoridae (Gray, 1825) 2: Fire-belly toads: European fire-bellied toad (Bombina bombina) Alytidae (Fitzinger, 1843) 3: Painted frogs or disc-tongued ...
The structure of the feet and legs varies greatly among frog species, depending in part on whether they live primarily on the ground, in water, in trees, or in burrows. Adult anurans have four fingers on the hands and five toes on the feet, [51] but the smallest species often have hands and feet where some of the digits are vestigial. [52]
The species within this family vary in size from 1.5 to 12 cm (0.59 to 4.72 in). [1] Like other arboreal frogs, they have toe discs, and those of the genus Chiromantis have two opposable fingers on each hand. This family also contains the Old World flying frogs, including Wallace's flying frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus). These frogs have ...
The species is very similar in appearance to another in the area – B hermogenesi – which also has the same yellowish-brown skin, lives in leaf litter, and emerges as tiny frogs from their eggs ...
Leptodactylus is a genus of leptodactylid frogs. [1] It includes the species commonly called ditch frogs or white-lipped frogs . [ 2 ] It is very similar to Physalaemus , a close relative, and indeed the 2005 described Leptodactylus lauramiriamae is in some aspects intermediate between them.