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European fire-bellied toad (Bombina bombina), a member of the family Bombinatoridae

Toad is a common name for certain frogs, especially of the family Bufonidae, that are characterized by dry, leathery skin, short legs, and large bumps covering the parotoid glands.

A distinction between frogs and toads is not made in scientific taxonomy, but is common in popular culture (folk taxonomy), in which toads are associated with drier, rougher skin and more terrestrial habitats. (Full article...)

Selected frog article

Alytes obstetricans

The Alytidae are a family of primitive frogs. Their common name is painted frogs or midwife toads. Most are endemic to Europe, but three species occur in northwest Africa, and a species formerly thought to be extinct is found in Israel.

This family is also known as Discoglossidae, but the older name Alytidae has priority and is now recognized by major reference works. Some researchers, though, suggest that Alytes and Discoglossus are different enough to be treated as belonging to separate families, implying resurrection of the Discoglossidae. The term "discoglossid" has also been used to refer to many primitive fossil frogs that share plesiomorphic (ancestral) similities to alytids, but that are probably not closely related. (Full article...)

Selected salamander article

The salamander is an amphibian of the order Urodela which, as with many real creatures, often has been ascribed fantastic and sometimes occult qualities by pre-modern authors (as in the allegorical descriptions of animals in medieval bestiaries) not possessed by the real organism. The legendary salamander is often depicted as a typical salamander in shape with a lizard-like form, but is usually ascribed an affinity with fire, sometimes specifically elemental fire. (Full article...)

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Picture slideshow

Image 1Panamanian golden frog
Image 2Ecnomiohyla rabborum
Image 3Male Smooth Newt (Lissotriton vulgaris aka Triturus vulgaris) during breeding season in the Netherlands.
Image 4Limosa harlequin frog
Image 5Southern Brown tree frog
Image 6Leaf green tree frog
Image 7Limnodynastes dumerilii
Image 8Fire salamander
Image 9Duttaphrynus melanostictus
Image 10Phantasmal poison frog
Image 11Surprise, its an amphibian. This is a genus of South American Caecilians, blind and snake-like, which hunt through leaf litter. Photo from Wildsumaco Reserve, Ecuador.
Image 12Common frog
Image 13Common toads during amplexus
Image 14Frogs
Image 15Blue Mountains tree frog
Image 16Balearic green toad
Image 17Atelopus certus
Image 18Litoria chloris
Image 19Edible Frog
Image 20Iberian midwife toad
Image 21Emerald-eyed tree frog
Image 22Eastern newt
Image 23American toad
Image 24White-lipped tree frog
Image 25Fire salamander
Image 26Golden toad
Image 27Spanish painted frog
Image 28Albanian water frog
Image 29Blue poison dart frog
Image 30Marsh frog
Image 31Dendropsophus microcephalus
Image 32Poison dart frog
Image 33Fire salamander
Image 34Italian tree frog
Image 35Fire-bellied toad
Image 36Agalychnis callidryas
Image 37Agile frog
Image 38Magnificent tree frog
Image 39New England tree frog
Image 40Epirus water frog
Image 41Lithobates clamitans

Selected toad article

Sclerophrys regularis

Sclerophrys is a genus of "true toads", family Bufonidae, native to Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula. Originally, all of these species were classified in the genus Bufo. The genus, originally named Amietophrynus, was split due to large enough taxonomic divergence. Ohler and Dubois showed in 2016 that Sclerophrys capensis Tschudi, 1838 is the same species as Bufo regularis rangeri Hewitt, 1935, the type species of Amietophrynus. Because the former name is older, the implication is that Amietophrynus is a junior synonym of Sclerophrys. (Full article...)

Selected caecilian article

Atretochoana eiselti is a species of caecilian originally known only from two preserved specimens discovered by Sir Graham Hales in the Brazilian rainforest, while on an expedition with Sir Brian Doll in the late 1800s, but rediscovered in 2011 by engineers working on a hydroelectric dam project in Brazil. Until 1998, it was known only from the type specimen in the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna. Originally placed in the genus Typhlonectes in 1968, it was reclassified into its own monotypic genus, Atretochoana, in 1996. It was also found to be more closely related to the genus Potamotyphlus than Typholonectes. The species is the largest of the few known lungless tetrapods, and the only known lungless caecilian. (Full article...)