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Herpetology - Amphibia - Anura
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Biology
Undergraduate 3
04/22/2013

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Term
Family of "tailed" frogs
Definition
ASCAPHIDAE
Term
Fire-bellied toads
Definition
BOMBINATORIDAE
Term
Flat, aquatic frogs with long webbed toes that have clawlike tips and lack a tongue.
Definition
PIPIDAE
Term
Burrowing toads, with an egg-shaped (look like a mole) body, short limbs, and spade-like feet
Definition
RHINOPHRYNIDAE
Term
Spadefoot toads
Definition
SCAPHIOPODIDAE
Term
leaf-shaped head with horns above the eye
Definition
MEGOPHRYIDAE
Term
"False" toads, whose bumps aren't granular or constant but are elongate, have blunt/ossified heads
Definition
CALYPTOCEPHALELLIDAE
Term
skinny body frogs wtih big eyes, large toe pads, long legs and often have webbed feet
Definition
HYLIDAE
Term
Frog with warty, glandular skin, paratoid glands, stout body, short limbs
Definition
BUFONIDAE
Term
small frogs with bright skin, poisonous, and two scutes atop each toetip
Definition
DENDROBATIDAE
Term
frogs with a fleshy proboscus projecting from the tip of the snout (VERY obvious); mouth-brooding frogs
Definition
RHINODERMATIDAE
Term
frongs: many are VERY small, from Central and South America
Definition
LEPTODACTYLIDAE
Term
VERY large, flat-faced head, enourmous gape; Horned Toads
Definition
CERATOPHRYIDAE
Term
frogs with strange bumps on hands, South American, recently promoted to Family
Definition
ALSODIDAE
Term
frogs with a narrowly pointed head, slit-like mouths, and folds behind their head (difficult to see in specimen)
Definition
MICROHYLIDAE
Term
convergent spp with DENDROBATIDAE, native to Madagascar and Mayotte Island
Definition
MANTELLIDAE
Term
brightly colored arboreal frogs with toe discs; hind feet webbed; often confused with HYLIDAE; Sub-Saharan Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar
Definition
HYPEROLIIDAE
Term
frogs with long toes and webbed feet, TYMPANIC DISC
Definition
RANIDAE
Term
enlarged toe discs, most have large eyes and horizontal pupils; sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, South Asia
Definition
RHACOPHORIDAE
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Definition

Ascaphus truei



in ASCAPHIDAE

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Definition

Xenopus laevis



in PIPIDAE

Term
Sickle-shaped spadefoot toad
Definition
Scaphiopus couchii
Term
Wedge Shaped Spade, no boss
Definition

Spea hammondii


in SCAPHIOPODIDAE

Term
wedge-spade on hind feet, boss between eyes
Definition

Spea intermontana



in SCAPHIOPODIDAE

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Definition

Rana aurora



in RANIDAE

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Definition

Rana draytonii



in RANIDAE

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Definition

Rana berlandieri



in RANIDAE

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Definition

Rana boylii



in RANIDAE

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Definition

Rana cascadae



in RANIDAE

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Definition

Rana catesbeiana

i.e. AMERICAN BULLFROG

 

in RANIDAE

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Definition

R. muscosa


in RANIDAE

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Definition

Rana sierrae


in RANIDAE

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Definition

Rana pipiens



in RANIDAE

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Definition

Pseudacris cadaverina



in HYLIDAE

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Definition

Pseudacris regilla



in HYLIDAE

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Definition

Bufo boreas



in BUFONIDAE

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Definition

Bufo californicus



in BUFONIDAE

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Definition

Bufo canorus



in BUFONIDAE

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Definition

Bufo cognatus



in BUFONIDAE

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Definition

Bufo exsul



in BUFONIDAE

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Definition

Bufo microscaphus



in BUFONIDAE

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Definition

Bufo punctatus



in BUFONIDAE

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Definition

Bufo woodhousii



in BUFONIDAE

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