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Batrachia   Listen
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Batrachia  n. pl.  (Zool.) The order of amphibians which includes the frogs and toads; the Anura. Sometimes the word is used in a wider sense as equivalent to Amphibia.






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"Batrachia" Quotes from Famous Books



... Species, Darwin further showed that no true oceanic island had any native mammals or batrachia when first discovered, this fact constituting the test of the class to which an island belongs; whence he argued that none of them had ever been connected with continents, but all had originated in mid-ocean. These considerations alone render it almost certain that the areas ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace

... is to say, the reptiles have been re-divided into four classes:—the Sauria, or Lizards (in which class some modern naturalists, as Merrem and others, include serpents); the Ophidia, or Serpents; the Testudinata, or Tortoises; and the Batrachia, or Frogs. The lizards occupy the first ten ...
— How to See the British Museum in Four Visits • W. Blanchard Jerrold



Words linked to "Batrachia" :   Discoglossidae, family Ranidae, Leiopelmatidae, Salientia, Anura, Liopelmidae, amphibia, family Pipidae, Brevicipitidae, family Leiopelmatidae, family Liopelmidae, order Salientia, Hylidae, Pelobatidae, family Pelobatidae, family Ascaphidae, Pipidae, family Microhylidae, Ascaphidae, Bufonidae, Ranidae, Microhylidae, family Brevicipitidae, animal order, Polypedatidae, order Anura, Leptodactylidae, family Hylidae, family Bufonidae, family Discoglossidae, family Leptodactylidae, order Batrachia, class Amphibia, family Polypedatidae



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