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Anadromous |
Migrating from the sea to rivers to spawn |
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Amnion |
Innermost membrane that encloses the embryo |
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Viviparious |
Bringing live youth out of parent without egg |
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Ovoviviparous |
Having live and egg birth to young |
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Apoda |
Caecilians |
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Caudata |
Salamander |
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Vomerine |
A thin bone in the interior of the skull |
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Allantois |
The fetal membrane lying below the chorion |
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Chorion |
The outermost membrane of an embryo |
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Cutaneous |
Affecting the skin |
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Monotremes |
highly specialised egg-laying predatory mammals |
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Fusiform |
tapering at both ends; spindle-shaped. |
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Permian |
Age of amphibians |
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Mesozoic |
Age of reptiles |
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Herpetology |
The study of reptiles and amphibians |
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Anura |
Frogs |
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Tadpoles |
the tailed aquatic larva of an amphibian |
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Albumen |
egg white, or the protein contained in it. |
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Benthic |
Relating to the bottom of the ocean |
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Bioindicators |
an organism whose status in an ecosystem is analyzed as an indication of the ecosystem's heath. |
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Gnathostomata |
Jawed vetebrates |
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Anticoagulant |
having the effect of retarding or inhibiting the coagulation of the blood |
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Agnatha |
Jawless fish |
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Amplexus |
the mating position of frogs and toads |
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Chytridiomycosis |
is a fungus that causes the disease chytridiomycosis in amphibians bd |
