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Definition of Order Salientia
1. Noun. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Amphibia, Class Amphibia
Member holonyms: Family Ranidae, Ranidae, Family Leptodactylidae, Leptodactylidae, Family Polypedatidae, Polypedatidae, Ascaphidae, Family Ascaphidae, Family Leiopelmatidae, Family Liopelmidae, Leiopelmatidae, Liopelmidae, Bufonidae, Family Bufonidae, Discoglossidae, Family Discoglossidae, Family Pelobatidae, Pelobatidae, Family Hylidae, Hylidae, Brevicipitidae, Family Brevicipitidae, Family Microhylidae, Microhylidae, Family Pipidae, Pipidae
Derivative terms: Salientian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Salientia
Literary usage of Order Salientia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Herpetology of Japan and Adjacent Territory by Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1907)
"... also in the Ussuri district. Beyond this nothing is known of the distribution
of this species. Order SALIENTIA. 1768. ..."
2. A Manual of Fish-culture: Based on the Methods of the United States by United States Bureau of Fisheries, John J. Brice, Henry Frank Moore, Frederick M. Chamberlain (1897)
"The frogs are included in the order Salientia (the leapers), distinguished by
having a short, depressed body and four limbs, the hind pair being much ..."
3. Laboratory Directions in Principles of Animal Biology by Aaron Franklin Shull, George Roger Larue, Alexander Grant Ruthven, Peter Olaus Okkelberg (1919)
"Order SALIENTIA. Frogs, toads. Characteristics. 2a. Tailless. See Rana, Hyla,
Chorophilus, Acris, Bufo. 26. External gills absent in adult. ..."
4. The Frog Book: North American Toads and Frogs, with a Study of the Habits by Mary Cynthia Dickerson (1906)
"... those bones that form wing-like extensions of the sacral or ninth Vertebra
and connect directly with the ilia or hip-bones. (Fig. 6.) Order SALIENTIA. ..."
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