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Amphibia

noun
1.
The class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water; frogs; toads; newts; salamanders; caecilians.  Synonym: class Amphibia.



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"Amphibia" Quotes from Famous Books



... another lower class, called the amphibia, whose members are gilled during the earlier stages of development. An adult frog is essentially a salamander without a tail and with highly developed hinder limbs. The salamanders differ as regards the number of fishlike gill clefts that they all possess in their young stages, but which ...
— The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton



Words linked to "Amphibia" :   Salientia, superorder Labyrinthodonta, polliwog, order Caudata, order Urodella, pollywog, order Batrachia, Labyrinthodontia, class Amphibia, amphibious, Urodella, Anura, genus Ichthyostega, order Anura, Craniata, superorder Labyrinthodontia, Gymnophiona, Labyrinthodonta, Caudata, subphylum Vertebrata, Stegocephalia, amphibian, tadpole, Hynerpeton, Vertebrata, order Stegocephalia, order Gymnophiona, genus Hynerpeton, class, subphylum Craniata, order Salientia, Batrachia



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