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Definition of Alytes
1. Noun. Midwife toads.
Generic synonyms: Amphibian Genus
Group relationships: Discoglossidae, Family Discoglossidae
Member holonyms: Alytes Obstetricans, Midwife Toad, Obstetrical Toad, Alytes Cisternasi, Midwife Toad
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alytes
Literary usage of Alytes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Zoology for High Schools and Colleges by Alpheus Spring Packard (1879)
"Another peculiarity in the reproductive habits of alytes, Pelobates, Cultripes,
and Pelodytes is that they spawn at two seasons instead of one, ..."
2. Zoology for High Schools and Colleges by Alpheus Spring Packard (1886)
"Among the lower frogs are certain tropical forms, as alytes, Pelobates, ...
The male of the European alytes obstetricans winds a string of eggs which it ..."
3. Zoology by Alpheus Spring Packard (1883)
"Among the lower frogs are certain tropical forms, as alytes, Pelobates, ...
The male of the European alytes obstetricans winds a string of eggs which it ..."
4. Zoology by Alpheus Spring Packard (1883)
"Among the lower frogs are certain tropical forms, as alytes, Pelobates, ...
The male of the European alytes obstetricans winds a string of eggs which it ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1900)
"'66 CLAUS, C. Ueber das Vorkommen von alytes obstetricans in der Umgebung Marburgs,
... Moeurs et accouchement de 1'alytes obstetricans. Ann. Sci. Nat. ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"alytes, Ihe midwife toad, first discovered by P. Demours in 1741, on the border
of a small pond in the Jardin des Plantes, in the very act of parturition ..."
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