Anyway, the Amphibia include some familiar creatures: the frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders. Some not-so-familiar creatures, like the legless, burrowing caecilians, are also amphibians. As suggested by their name, which means "double life" in Greek, amphibians spend at least part of their lives in water;
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www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/tetrapods/amphibintro...
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Amphibia refers to "double life", or life in water and on land ... Includes the salamanders, frogs, toads, and caecilians with approximately 3,900 spp. ... Three primary orders of Amphibia within the Subclass Lissamphibia...
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www.shsu.edu/~bio_mlt/AMPHIBIA.html
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Amphibians comprise a large and diverse class of animals. Usually placed in the same sentence as reptiles, they are really quite different. The term "amphibia" means aquatic and terrestrial, as amphibians are as just at home on land as in the water.
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GGA is the first-ever assessment of the conservation status of the world's 5,918 known species of frogs, toads, salamanders and caecilians and provides a searchable database. ... The first comprehensive assessment of the conservation status of all amphibians was completed as the Global Amphibian Assessment (GAA) in 2004.
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www.globalamphibians.org/
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· Order Gymnophiona ... • Vertebral column (95-285 vertebrae) and ribs ... • Tropical - South America, Africa, SE Asia...
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www.d.umn.edu/biology/courses/bio3701/Amphibia.htm
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Amphibian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Amphibians (class Amphibia), such as frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians, are ectothermic (or cold-blooded) animals that metamorphose from a juvenile water-breathing form, to an adult ai...
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ITIS link: Amphibia Linnaeus, 1758 ... Media in category "Amphibia" ... Category Amphibia on sister projects:
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commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Amphibia
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The term "amphibia" means aquatic and terrestrial, as amphibians are as just at home on land as in the water. Amphibians, although thought to be soft and squishy, do have a mostly-bone skeleton with the rest being made of cartilage.
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www.virtualology.com/Phylumchordata/classamphibia/Class...
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We don't yet have an account for this group, but we do have information about families within the Amphibia. Use the Classification tab to navigate to them, or click on "Members of this Class" on the right.
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