amphibian family
Noun
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Any family of amphibians (synset 101628775)
is a type of: family - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more generasubtypes:
- family salamandridae, 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
- family plethodontidae, plethodontidae - small mostly terrestrial New World salamanders having neither lungs nor gills as adults
- amphiumidae, family amphiumidae - congo snakes
- family sirenidae, sirenidae - sirens
- family ranidae, ranidae - a family nearly cosmopolitan in distribution: true frogs
- family leptodactylidae, leptodactylidae - New World frogs; in some classifications essentially coextensive with the family Bufonidae
- family polypedatidae, polypedatidae - Old World tree frogs
- ascaphidae, family ascaphidae - family of one species of frog: tailed frog
- family leiopelmatidae, family liopelmidae, leiopelmatidae, liopelmidae - primitive New Zealand frogs
- bufonidae, family bufonidae - true toads
- discoglossidae, family discoglossidae - family of Old World toads having a fixed disklike tongue
- family pelobatidae, pelobatidae - the amphibian family of spadefoot toads
- family hylidae, hylidae - the amphibian family of tree frogs
- brevicipitidae, family brevicipitidae, family microhylidae, microhylidae - narrow-mouthed toads and sheep frogs; some burrow and some are arboreal; found worldwide
- family pipidae, pipidae - tongueless frogs
- family xenopodidae, 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
belongs to: craniata, subphylum craniata, subphylum vertebrata, vertebrata - fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals
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