Lab Test 2- Anura Flashcards

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What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?

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Common name: Eastern Spadefoot
Scientific name: Scaphiopus holbrookii
Family: Scaphiopodidae
Characteristics:parotid glands round and small; no bony ridges between eyes; pupil of eye vertically elliptical

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What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?

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Common name: American Toad
Scientific name: Anaxyrus americanus
Family: Bufonidae
Characteristics: Dorsal tibial warts conspicuously enlarged; most of dark dorsal spots enclosing a single wart; considerable dark ventral pigment

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What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?

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Common name: Fowler’s Toad
Scientific name: Anaxyrus fowleri
Family: Bufonidae
Characteristics: Dorsal tibial warts scarcely larger than those on femur or tarsus; most of dark dorsal spots enclosing several small warts, no dark ventral pigment or a single spot on the chest.

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What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?

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Common name: Northern Cricket Frog
Scientific name: Acris crepitan
Family: Hylidae (Ameroaustralian Treefrog)
Characteristics: Posterior aspect of thigh with distinct dark longitudinal stripe; tympanum partly concealed below a fold of skin, size small, body length not exceeding 35mm (1.25 inch)

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What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?

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Common name: Green Treefrog
Scientific name: Hyla cinerea
Family: Hylidae
Characteristics: Back bright green; white lateral stripe; no dark reticulation on posterior aspect of thigh; no light suborbital spot

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What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?

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Common names: Gray Tree Frog or Cope’s Gray Tree Frog
Scientific names: Hyla versicolor or Hyla chrysoscelis
Family: Hylidae
Characteristic: Distinguished apart by vocalizations

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What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?

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Common name: Spring Peeper
Scientific name: Pseudacris crucifer
Family: Hylidae
Characteristics: Dorsal pattern usually a dark X; 3 or fewer phalanges of 4th toe free of web

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What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?

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Common name: Western Chorus Frog
Scientific name: Pseudacris triseriata
Family: Hylidae
Characteristics: Heel rarely reaching anterior to middle of eye; tibia 40 to 50 percent of body length; pattern of parallel dark dorsal stripes or rows of spots.

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What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?

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Family: Microhylidae (Narrow-Mouth frogs and toads)

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What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?

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Common name: American Bullfrog
Scientific name: Lithobates catesbeianus
Family: Ranidae (True Frogs)
Characteristics: Dorsolateral dermal ridges absent

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What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?

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Common name: Green Frog
Scientific name: Lithobates clamitans
Family: Ranidae (True Frogs)
Characteristics:

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What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?

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Common name: Wood Frog
Scientific name: Lithobates sylvaticus
Family: Ranidae (True Frogs)
Characteristics: Sharply defined darker band from eye to angle of jaw; usually covering tympanum

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What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?

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Common name: Northern Leopard Frog
Scientific name: Lithobates pipiens
Family: Ranidae (True Frogs)
Characteristics: Tympanum without light center; dorsal spots with light edges; snout spot usually present

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What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?

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Common name: Southern Leopard Frog
Scientific name: Lithobates spenocephalus
Family: Ranidae (True Frogs)
Characteristics:

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What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?

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Common name: Plains Leopard Frog
Scientific name: Lithobates blairi
Family: Ranidae (True Frogs)
Characteristics: Dorsolateral ridges interrupted posteriorly and their tips displaced

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What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?

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Common name: Pickerel Frog
Scientific name: Lithobates palustris
Family: Ranidae (True Frog)
Characteristics: Dark spots roughly quadrangular and in 2 rows; orange to yellow wash on posterior belly and underside of thighs

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What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?

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Common name: Crawfish Frog
Scientific name: Lithobates areolata
Family: Ranidae (True Frogs)
Characteristics: No light line on upper jaw; tibia less than 50% of body length;ground color yellowish or whitish with dark suffusion.

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What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?

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Family: Leiopelmatidae (Tailed Frogs and New Zealand Frogs)

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What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?

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Family: Rhinophrynidae (Mexican Burrowing Toad)

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What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?

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Family: Pipidae (Tongueless Frogs)

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What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?

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Trick question,
Order: Gymnophiona

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Name the structure of #1

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Premaxilla

23
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Name the structure of #3

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Maxilla

24
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Name the structure of #8

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Nasal

25
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Name the structure of #14

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Frontoparietal

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Name the structure of #2

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Phalanges

27
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Name the structure of #7

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Metacarpals

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Name the structure of #20

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Carpals

29
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Name the structure of #5

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Vertebrae

30
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Name the structure of #6

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Tibiofibula

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Name the structure of #13

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Femur

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Name the structure of #12

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Urostyle

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Name the structure of #10

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Ischium

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Name the structure of #17

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Ilium

35
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Name the structure of #11

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Tarsals

36
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Name the structure of #18

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Metatarsals

37
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Name the structure of #19

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Phalanges

38
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Name the structure of #9

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Sacral Vertebra

39
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Name the structure of #16

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suprascapula

40
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Name the structure of #15

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Humerus

41
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Name the structure of #4

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Radio-ulna