Ascaphidae
| Tailed frogs | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Suborder: | Archaeobatrachia |
| Family: | Ascaphidae Fejérváry, 1923 |
| Genus: | Ascaphus Stejneger, 1899 |
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| 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 | change source]- ↑ "Wildlife - Environment - Green Diamond Resource Company". Archived from the original on 2008-11-19. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
Books
[change | change source]- Gissi, Carmela; San Mauro, Diego; Pesole, Graziano; Zardoya, Rafael (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; Bossuyt, Franky (February 2005). "Archaeobatrachian paraphyly and pangaean diversification of crown-group frogs". Systematic Biology. 54 (1): 111–126. doi:10.1080/10635150590905894. PMID 15805014. S2CID 10677785.
Other websites
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Media related to Ascaphidae at Wikimedia Commons
- Excerpt from Zeiner et al. 1988 describing tailed frogs Archived 2004-08-26 at the Wayback Machine
- Type information from the American Museum of Natural History
