Amphibians

Question 1

Do amphibians have scales?

Answer 1

No

Question 2

Are Amphibians ectothermic?

Answer 2

Yes

Question 3

Are amphibians cryptic?

Answer 3

Yes

Question 4

Amphibians have this type of skin

Answer 4

Glandular

Question 5

The 3 taxonomy orders of amphibians

Answer 5

Caudata
Anura
Gymnophiona

Question 6

Largest amphibians

Answer 6

Chinese giant salamander

Goliath frog

Question 7

Smallest amphibians

Answer 7

Thorius sp.

Eleutherodactylus sp.

Question 8

Life span of amphibians

Answer 8

Up to 55 years

Question 9

How many Caudata families?

Answer 9

10

Question 10

How many Caudata species?

Answer 10

> 500

Question 11

Where are the Caudata species found?

Answer 11

N./S. America, Europe, Asia

Question 12

How many Anura families?

Answer 12

33 families

Question 13

How many Anura species?

Answer 13

> 5,000 species

Question 14

Where are Anura species found?

Answer 14

Worldwide

Question 15

This frog can live up to 55 years!

Answer 15

White’s Tree Frog

Question 16

The pigmentation on this frog makes them appear to have teeth

Answer 16

Monkey Frog

Question 17

This frog has “chicken skin”

Answer 17

Ranidae- Mantellas

Question 18

We eat this frog’s legs

Answer 18

American Bullfrog

Question 19

This frog “wears eyeliner”

Answer 19

Eyelash Frog

Question 20

This frog’s nickname is Pacman

Answer 20

Ornate Horned Frog

Question 21

This frog has “teeth” but not classified as teeth because there is no enamel

Answer 21

Ornate Horned Frog

Question 22

Frogs have an atlas but not this

Answer 22

Vertical vertebrae

Question 23

Where does gas exchange occur?

Answer 23

Lungs, gills, and/or the skin

Question 24

Some of this species of amphibians do not have lungs

Answer 24

Some salamanders

Question 25

Are males or females larger?

Answer 25

Females are larger

Question 26

Do amphibians thermoregulate?

Answer 26

Yes

Question 27

Humidity

Answer 27

> 70%

Question 28

Toxin uses for people

Answer 28

Weapon (poison dart frogs)

Pharmacology (pain killers, psychoactive)

Question 29

Types of toxins

Answer 29

Aposematism and Mimicry

Question 30

What is used to anesthetize amphibians?

Answer 30

Tricaine Methanesulfonate (MS-222)

Isoflurane

Question 31

Venipuncture sites

Answer 31

Abdominal vein (very superficial)
Femoral vein
Sublingual vein

Question 32

Most common problem in amphibians

Answer 32

Red Leg

Question 33

Aeromonas is aka

Answer 33

Redleg disease

Question 34

Signs of redleg

Answer 34

Erythema (reddening of the skin)
Cloudy eyes or bleeding in eye
Fibrinous coelitis
Fibrinous or cloudy lymph sacs
Splenomegaly
Hepatomegally 
Blood hemorrhages beneath skin

Question 35

Treatment for redleg

Answer 35

Antibiotic ointment Tritop or Neosporin
Tetracycline bath
Enrofloxacine (Baytril)

Question 36

What are the effects of Chytrid Fungi

Answer 36

Interferes with respiration and control of water flow and kills adult frogs

Question 37

Where did Chytrid fungi originate?

Answer 37

In African Clawed frogs

Question 38

Treatment for Chytrid Fungi

Answer 38

Itraconazole

Question 39

How many chambers are in amphibian hearts?

Answer 39

3 chambers