Class Amphibia limbs with girdles of bone (adaptation for walking on land) a tongue used for catching prey and for sensory input eyelids (keep eyes moist) ears for detecting sound in air larynx adapted for vocalization skin (glands, no scales) active in osmotic balance & respiration lung used exclusively for gas exchange reproduction in water (external fertilization three chambered heart (2 atria, 1 ventricle)
Amphibian Circulation
Class Amphibia Order Gymnophiona (Caecilians) Order Caudata (Salamanders) Order Anura (Toads and Frogs)
internal fertilization The Caecilians Order Gymnophiona worm-like amphibians limbless carnivores internal fertilization tropical
Reduced eyes
Reproduction carry eggs lay eggs
The Salamanders tailed, paired limbs carnivores bend side-to-side metamorphic neoteny
Three Types of Salamanders terrestrial entirely aquatic amphibious Respiration through skin
Salamander Reproduction
Paedomorphosis (Neotony)
The Toads and Frogs no tails carnivores metamorphic no neoteny
Reproduction amplexus
Conservation Issues Wetland Loss Deformations