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amphibian family

DEFINITIONS OF: amphibian family

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n any family of amphibians

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Salamandridae, family Salamandridae
salamanders
Ambystomatidae, family Ambystomatidae
New World salamanders
Cryptobranchidae, family Cryptobranchidae
large aquatic salamanders: hellbenders; giant salamanders
Dicamptodontidae, family Dicamptodontidae
large and small highly aquatic salamanders
Plethodontidae, family Plethodontidae
small mostly terrestrial New World salamanders having neither lungs nor gills as adults
Amphiumidae, family Amphiumidae
congo snakes
Sirenidae, family Sirenidae
sirens
Ranidae, family Ranidae
a family nearly cosmopolitan in distribution: true frogs
Leptodactylidae, family Leptodactylidae
New World frogs; in some classifications essentially coextensive with the family Bufonidae
Polypedatidae, family Polypedatidae
Old World tree frogs
Ascaphidae, family Ascaphidae
family of one species of frog: tailed frog
Leiopelmatidae, Liopelmidae, family Leiopelmatidae, family Liopelmidae
primitive New Zealand frogs
Bufonidae, family Bufonidae
true toads
Discoglossidae, family Discoglossidae
family of Old World toads having a fixed disklike tongue
Pelobatidae, family Pelobatidae
the amphibian family of spadefoot toads
Hylidae, family Hylidae
the amphibian family of tree frogs
Brevicipitidae, Microhylidae, family Brevicipitidae, family Microhylidae
narrow-mouthed toads and sheep frogs; some burrow and some are arboreal; found worldwide
Pipidae, family Pipidae
tongueless frogs
Xenopodidae, family Xenopodidae
in some classifications the family of the genus Xenopus which is otherwise included in the family Pipidae
Caeciliadae, Caeciliidae, family Caeciliadae, family Caeciliidae
coextensive with the order Gymnophiona: legless amphibians
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(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
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