BIOL 3300 Vertebrate Zoology: Ectotherms - Herpetology

BIOL 3300 Vertebrate Zoology: Ectotherms -

Herpetology

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Anuran diversity!• • (except 1)• Caudal/sacral

vertebrae fused into _______________

• _________ presacral vertebrae

• •

Anuran diversity!• Tongue attached

________________• Reproductive mode

__________• Fertilization …

• __________ (variations)

Anuran diversity!

• Ascaphidae

Anuran diversity!

• See information under lab link…

• Leiopelmatidae

Anuran diversity!

• Some phylogenetic schemes place these with tailed frogs.

• Pipidae

Anuran diversity!

• Small but VERY distinct family (~30 species)

• • • • __________in adults• Non-pedicelate

teeth

• Pipidae

Anuran diversity!

• Well known in the lab!

• Rhinophrynidae

Anuran diversity!

• 1 species… But oh so distinct!

• Rhinophrynidae

Anuran diversity!

•

• Rhinophrynidae

Anuran diversity!

• •

• Scaphiopodidae (Pelobatidae)

Anuran diversity!

• See information under lab link…

• Dendrobatidae

Anuran diversity!

• Large family (~300 species)

• ________________(Central/South America)

• • … only a

few used on darts… one ___________________

• Hylidae

Anuran diversity!

• See information under lab link…

• Intercalary cartilages

• Strabomantidae

Anuran diversity!

• Large family(~500 species)

• Split from formerly largest vertebrate genus ______________ to current largest _______________

• Craugastoridae

Anuran diversity!

• Leaf litter frogs•

• Microhylidae

Anuran diversity!

• Narrow mouth toads•

• Centrolenidae

Anuran diversity!

• ~150 species• • Glass frogs

• Brachycephalidae

Anuran diversity!

• Small S. American frogs•

• Bufonidae

Anuran diversity!

• Large family (~500 species)

• • …

“Toothless Toads”

• Allophrynidae

Anuran diversity!

• … But oh so distinct!

• Glass frog relative? Lumped by some?

• Ranidae

Anuran diversity!

• ~1000 species…• • No intercalary

cartilages• Probably NOT

_______________

• Mantellidae

Anuran diversity!

• Endemic to ____________• Similar to…

• Leptodactylidae

Anuran diversity!

• Perhaps NOT monophyletic