Lab Test 2- Anura Flashcards
What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?
Common name: Eastern Spadefoot
Scientific name: Scaphiopus holbrookii
Family: Scaphiopodidae
Characteristics:parotid glands round and small; no bony ridges between eyes; pupil of eye vertically elliptical
What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?
Common name: American Toad
Scientific name: Anaxyrus americanus
Family: Bufonidae
Characteristics: Dorsal tibial warts conspicuously enlarged; most of dark dorsal spots enclosing a single wart; considerable dark ventral pigment
What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?
Common name: Fowler’s Toad
Scientific name: Anaxyrus fowleri
Family: Bufonidae
Characteristics: Dorsal tibial warts scarcely larger than those on femur or tarsus; most of dark dorsal spots enclosing several small warts, no dark ventral pigment or a single spot on the chest.
What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?
Common name: Northern Cricket Frog
Scientific name: Acris crepitan
Family: Hylidae (Ameroaustralian Treefrog)
Characteristics: Posterior aspect of thigh with distinct dark longitudinal stripe; tympanum partly concealed below a fold of skin, size small, body length not exceeding 35mm (1.25 inch)
What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?
Common name: Green Treefrog
Scientific name: Hyla cinerea
Family: Hylidae
Characteristics: Back bright green; white lateral stripe; no dark reticulation on posterior aspect of thigh; no light suborbital spot
What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?
Common names: Gray Tree Frog or Cope’s Gray Tree Frog
Scientific names: Hyla versicolor or Hyla chrysoscelis
Family: Hylidae
Characteristic: Distinguished apart by vocalizations
What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?
Common name: Spring Peeper
Scientific name: Pseudacris crucifer
Family: Hylidae
Characteristics: Dorsal pattern usually a dark X; 3 or fewer phalanges of 4th toe free of web
What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?
Common name: Western Chorus Frog
Scientific name: Pseudacris triseriata
Family: Hylidae
Characteristics: Heel rarely reaching anterior to middle of eye; tibia 40 to 50 percent of body length; pattern of parallel dark dorsal stripes or rows of spots.
What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?
Family: Microhylidae (Narrow-Mouth frogs and toads)
What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?
Common name: American Bullfrog
Scientific name: Lithobates catesbeianus
Family: Ranidae (True Frogs)
Characteristics: Dorsolateral dermal ridges absent
What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?
Common name: Green Frog
Scientific name: Lithobates clamitans
Family: Ranidae (True Frogs)
Characteristics:
What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?
Common name: Wood Frog
Scientific name: Lithobates sylvaticus
Family: Ranidae (True Frogs)
Characteristics: Sharply defined darker band from eye to angle of jaw; usually covering tympanum
What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?
Common name: Northern Leopard Frog
Scientific name: Lithobates pipiens
Family: Ranidae (True Frogs)
Characteristics: Tympanum without light center; dorsal spots with light edges; snout spot usually present
What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?
Common name: Southern Leopard Frog
Scientific name: Lithobates spenocephalus
Family: Ranidae (True Frogs)
Characteristics:
What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?
Common name: Plains Leopard Frog
Scientific name: Lithobates blairi
Family: Ranidae (True Frogs)
Characteristics: Dorsolateral ridges interrupted posteriorly and their tips displaced
What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?
Common name: Pickerel Frog
Scientific name: Lithobates palustris
Family: Ranidae (True Frog)
Characteristics: Dark spots roughly quadrangular and in 2 rows; orange to yellow wash on posterior belly and underside of thighs
What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?
Common name: Crawfish Frog
Scientific name: Lithobates areolata
Family: Ranidae (True Frogs)
Characteristics: No light line on upper jaw; tibia less than 50% of body length;ground color yellowish or whitish with dark suffusion.
What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?
Family: Leiopelmatidae (Tailed Frogs and New Zealand Frogs)
What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?
Family: Rhinophrynidae (Mexican Burrowing Toad)
What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?
Family: Pipidae (Tongueless Frogs)
What is the common name, scientific name, family and distinguishable characteristics?
Trick question,
Order: Gymnophiona
Name the structure of #1
Premaxilla
Name the structure of #3
Maxilla
Name the structure of #8
Nasal
Name the structure of #14
Frontoparietal
Name the structure of #2
Phalanges
Name the structure of #7
Metacarpals
Name the structure of #20
Carpals
Name the structure of #5
Vertebrae
Name the structure of #6
Tibiofibula
Name the structure of #13
Femur
Name the structure of #12
Urostyle
Name the structure of #10
Ischium
Name the structure of #17
Ilium
Name the structure of #11
Tarsals
Name the structure of #18
Metatarsals
Name the structure of #19
Phalanges
Name the structure of #9
Sacral Vertebra
Name the structure of #16
suprascapula
Name the structure of #15
Humerus
Name the structure of #4
Radio-ulna
