TAXONOMY AMPHIBIANS Flashcards
They are family of neotenic aquatic salamanders
were members have very small fore limbs and lack
hind limbs altogether.
Sirenidae
a family of salamanders consisting of true salamanders and newts.
Salamandridae
known as torrent salamanders or Cascade salamanders
Rhyacotritonidae
a group of aquatic salamanders found today in the Balkan Peninsula and North America
Proteidae
known as lungless
salamanders.
Plethodontidae
known as amphiumas. They are also known to fishermen as “conger eels” or “Congo snakes“
Amphiumidae
These salamanders are
mostly terrestrial and eat invertebrates
Ambystomatidae
SUBORDER. referred to as advanced salamanders
● The members of the suborder are found worldwide
except for Antarctica, sub-Saharan Africa, and
Oceania.
● All members use internal fertilization.
Salamandriodea
Are a suborder of salamanders found in
Asia, European Russia, and the United
States.
● They are known as primitive
salamanders
Cryptobranchoidea
a group of amphibians typically characterized by
their lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies,
blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to
the body, and the presence of a tail in both larvae
and adults
URODELA
family of South American Caecilian
Siphonopidae
also known as aquatic caecilians or rubber eels, are a family of caecilians found east of the Andes in South America.
Typhlonectidae
family of common caecilians. they
superficially resemble worms or snakes.
Caecillidae
family of Indian caecilians
Chikilidae
a family of neotropical caecilians
Dermophiidae
Indo-African caecilian
Grandisoniidae
known as the African caecilians. They are
found in Sub-Saharan Africa
Herpelidae
the family of Asiatic tailed
caecilians or fish caecilians found in South and Southeast
Asia as well as southernmost China.
Ichthyophiidae
a family of caecilians, also known as
the Neotropical tailed caecilians, American tailed caecilians.
or beaked caecilians.
Rhinatrematidae
a family of caecilians also
known as tropical caecilians, buried-eyed caecilians,
or African caecilians.
Scolecomorphidae
an order of limbless, vermiform
(worm-shaped) or serpentine (snakeshaped) amphibians
Gymnophiona
(Caecilian)
known as spadefoot toads, are a small family of frogs with one genus and four species spread in Europe, Western Asia and North-western Africa. They have short legs, stocky bodies with vertical pupils and produce an odour similar to garlic.
Pelobatidae
The southern frogs; a name that comes from Greek meaning a bird or other animal having slender toes
Leptodactylidae
sedge frogs and bush frogs, are a large family of small to mediumsized, brightly colored frogs
Hyperoliidae
This is the only family of anurans in which all members are known as toads
or true toads, although some may be called frogs (such as harlequin frogs)
Bufonidae
a wide-ranging family of frogs commonly referred to as “tree frogs and their allies”. However, the hylids include a diversity of frog species, many of which do not live in trees, but are terrestrial or semiaquatic.
Hylidae
a family of frogs that occur in tropical sub-Saharan Africa, South India and Sri Lanka, Japan, northeastern India to eastern China and Taiwan, south through the Philippines
and Greater Sundas, and Sulawesi. They are commonly known as shrub frogs, or more ambiguously as “moss frogs” or “bush frogs”
Rhacophoridae
a family of primitive frogs, their common name is midwife toads or painting frogs
Alytidae
a family known as true frogs: They have the widest distribution of any frog family. They are abundant throughout most of the world, occurring on all continents except Antarctica.
Ranidae
a family of primitive, tongueless frogs.
Pipidae
The subclass of tetrapods that includes all modern
amphibians.
Lissamphibia
