• True toads • Prominent cranial crests • Dry warty skin • Short forelimbs for hopping and walking • Parotoid gland behind large eyes containing a toxin • Some snakes have adapted immunity to this toxin and can consume toads
Ranidae
Bufonidae
Microhylidae
Craugastoridae
• Tree, Cricket, and Chorus Frogs • Paratoid glands absent • Small, long limbed, toe pads, short webs between toes • Horizontal pupils • 7 spp to know
Hylidae
• “True frogs” • Free fingers; webbed toes • Smooth skin • Paratoid glands absent or indistinct • Usually horizontal pupils
• ”Spadefoot frogs” • Keratinized spades on hind feet • Allow burrowing into the dirt • Cat-like eyes • Desert dwellers • 2 spp to know • 1 genus
Scaphiopodidae
• “Narrow mouthed frogs” • 2 or 3 pallet folds • Feed on ants and termites • 1 sp to know
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