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Octavios BookAmphibians
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• Amphibians
• are vertebrates
• (have backbones)

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• Over 80 of
• amphibians are
• frogs and toads,
• known as anurans

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• The whites tree
• frog and European
• Fire-bellied toad
• are anurans

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• The anurans have
• long five-toed
• back legs and
• short four-toed
• front legs

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• Amphibians
• can not control
• their body
• temperature

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• The alpine
• newt and the
• salamander
• are amphibians

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• The newts and
• salamanders
• have short limbs
• and long tails

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• The northern red
• salamander and
• the tiger
• salamander are
• amphibians

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• Amphibians
• hatches as an
• aquatic larva
• with gills.

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• The larva then
• transforms into
• an adult having
• air-breathing
• lungs.

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• Amphibian are
• capable of living
• both on land
• and in water

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• Adult amphibians
• usually have
• smooth skin
• that

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• absorb oxygen
• from the air,
• helping them
• to breath

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• The red eye
• frogs have
• smooth skin

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• But some
• frogs and
• toads have
• thick skin

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• to help them
• survive in dried
• conditions

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• The golden
• toad has thick
• skin

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• All amphibians
• have glands in
• their skin that
• produce slime

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• to help keep it
• moist, some also
• produce poisonous
• substances.

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• The blue jeans
• dart frog and
• the dendrobates
• are poisonous
• frogs

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• All amphibians
• are hunters.
• many use their
• bulging eyes

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• to track
• their pray,
• swallowing in
• whole

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• Caecilians are
• the smallest
• group of
• amphibians

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• They look like
• worm, with blunt
• snout, tiny eyes
• and wide mouth

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• There are more
• that 6,000
• species of living
• amphibians