Ascaphidae

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Tailed frogs
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Suborder: Archaeobatrachia
Family: Ascaphidae
Fejérváry, 1923
Genus: Ascaphus
Stejneger, 1899
Species
  • Ascaphus montanus Mittleman and Myers, 1949
  • Ascaphus truei Stejneger, 1899
Distribution of Ascaphidae (in black)

Ascaphidae is a family of frogs. They are called tailed frogs because they have an organ that looks like a tail. The tail helps them to live in fast-moving streams. They live in North America.[1]

References[change]

  1. ↑ http://www.greendiamond.com/environment/wildlife.asp

Books[change]

  • Gissi, Carmela; Diego San Mauro, Graziano Pesole and Rafael Zardoya (February 2006). "Mitochondrial phylogeny of Anura (Amphibia): A case study of congruent phylogenetic reconstruction using amino acid and nucleotide characters". Gene 366 (2): 228–237. doi:10.1016/j.gene.2005.07.034. PMID 16307849.
  • Roelants, Kim; Franky Bossuyt (February 2005). "Archaeobatrachian paraphyly and pangaean diversification of crown-group frogs". Systematic Biology 54 (1): 111–126. doi:10.1080/10635150590905894. PMID 15805014.

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