Amphibians youtube/watch?v=LTFmOEy6M-o

1. Amphibianshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTFmOEy6M-o

2. Amphibians • Includes frogs, salamanders and caecilians • All amphibians are carnivorous, • Frogs and salamanders capture prey with their tongues

3. Amphibians • Bony skeleton • Usually 4 limbs (tetrapod) • Webbed feet often present • Skin usually smooth and moist with many glands • Some with poison glands • Respiration by lungs, skin, and gills • Ectotherms (rely on outside heat sources)

4. Amphibians • Use both aquatic and terrestrial habitats • Life cycle involves semi-terrestrial adults that breed and lay eggs in water. • Some undergo metamorphosis

6. Order Gymnophiona • Caecilian • No legs • Burrow in soil • Long, slender body, small scales • Internal fertilization; eggs deposited in moist ground near water • Do not go through metamorphosis

7. Caecilians – legless amphibians

9. Order Urodela • Tailed amphibians • Oura – tail; delos – evident • Internal fertilization but lay eggs in water or moist soil • Newts and salamandars

11. Tiger salamander

12. Northwestern salamander

13. Clouded Salamander

14. Green salamander

15. Cave salamander

16. Warty Newt

17. Eastern Red Spotted Newt

18. Order Anura • Frogs & Toads • An – without; orua - tail • Internal fertilization • Undergo metamorphosis • Vocalizations are used for male for courtship and establishing territories • Live near water

19. Order Anura

20. Brazilian horned frog

21. Flying frog

22. Harlequin toad

23. Goliath Frog

24. Morogoro Tree Toad

25. Venezuela Pebble Toad

26. Vietnamese Mossy Frog http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxAEmlF-ulU

27. Turtle Frog

28. Glass Froghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EEau-w1Bwc

30. Purple froghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRC9sBNt9vs

31. Surinam Toadhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ7b4spjXhw

32. Tree froghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im5Oj59LfXs