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Leipelma archeyi
Family-Leiopelmatidae
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Ascaphus truei
Family-Ascaphidae
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Bombina orientalis
- Family-Bombinatoridae
- Fire-belled frogs
- Unken reflex- when frightened they turn over and expose their brightly colored bellies
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Alytes obstetricans
- Family-Discoglossidae (European toad)
- Mid-wife toad
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Scaphiophus holbrookii
- Family-Pelobatidae
- Spadefoot toad
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Megophrys montana
- Family-Pelobatidae
- From Asia
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Pipa pipa
- Family-Pipidae
- Lack tongues, adults have lateral line organs, webbed feet, but unwebbed fingers
- Strange breeding and brooding
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Xenopus
- Family-Pipidae
- African clawed frog
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Nectophrynoides
- Family- Bufonidae
- variety of reproductive strat. (Ovoviviparity and viviparity)
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Atelopus
- Family-Bufonidae
- Harlequin frogs
- oral suckers
- loss of species
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Centrolenidae
- Glass frogs
- skin is unpigmented
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Ceratophrys cornuta
- Family-Lepodactylidae
- Big mouthed frogs
- eat other frogs, rats, reptiles, and small mammals
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Rheobatrachus silus
- Family-Myobatrachidae
- gastic brooding
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Pseudis paradoxa
- Family-Pseudidae
- tadpole grows to 9 inches or more, but meta. to a frog that is 3 inches
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Rhinoderma darwini
- Family-Rhinodermatidae
- when tadpoles begin to move in the eggs the make take them into his vocal sac and broods them
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Gastrotheca
- Family-Hylidae
- variety of reproductive strat.
- back brooding
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Anotheca
- Family-Hylidae
- Lays eggs in bromeliads
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Poison arrow frogs
Family-Dendrobatidae
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Conraua goliath
- Family-Ranidae
- largest frog
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Breviceps
- Family-Microhylidae
- Size dimorphism
- male sticks to female
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Gastrophryne carolinensis
Family-Microhylidae
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Hyperoliidae
- treefrogs from Africa only
- could have out competed Hylidae in Africa
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Rhacophorus
- Family-Rhacophoridae
- known for parachuting ablility (for escaping from pred.)
- Spread toes and arch body
- can turn 180 degrees in flight
- very steep diving angles
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General information on frogs
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Bombinatoridae
Found in Europe (including Russia) and Asia
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Discoglossidae
Found in Europe
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Pelobatidae
Found in Europe, Asia, and N.A
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Pipidae
Found in Africa and South America
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Bufonidae
Found everywhere except Australia
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Centrolenidae
Mexico into northern S.A
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Leptodactylidae
Found in N.A and Mexico-S.A
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Myobatrachidae
Found in Australia and New Guinea
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Pseudidae
Found in a very small range in eastern S.A
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Rhinodermatidae
Found in a small range in western S.A
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Hylidae
Not found in Africa
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Dendrobatidae
Central and South America
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Microhylidae
All except Europe and the Poles
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Rhacophoridae
Africa and Asia
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