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frog : any of various largely aquatic leaping anuran amphibians (such as ranids) that have slender bodies with smooth moist skin and strong long hind legs with webbed feet — Merriam-Webster See also OneLook

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Frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura. Frogs are widely distributed, ranging from the tropics to subarctic regions, but the greatest concentration of species diversity is in tropical rainforests. There are approximately 4,800 recorded species, accounting for over 85% of extant amphibian species. They are also one of the five most diverse vertebrate orders. — Wikipedia

Frog (Encyclopædia Britannica)

Browse Frog Family (AmphibiaWeb, University of California, Berkeley)
Amphibians (David B. Wake & Michelle S. Koo, Current Biology)
Meet Amphibians (AmphibiaWeb, University of California, Berkeley)
AmphibiaWeb’s Illustrated Amphibians of the Earth (AmphibiaWeb, University of California, Berkeley)
AmphibiaWeb (YouTube Channel)

Frogs and Toads (One Zoom)
Anura (Catalogue of Life)
Frog (WolframAlpha)

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Articles about Frogs (Big Think)

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Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids, turtles, terrapins, tortoises, crocodilians, and the tuataras). Birds, which are cladistically included within Reptilia, are traditionally excluded here; the scientific study of birds is the subject of ornithology. Thus, the definition of herpetology can be more precisely stated as the study of ectothermic (cold-blooded) tetrapods. Under this definition “herps” (or sometimes “herptiles” or “herpetofauna”) exclude fish, but it is not uncommon for herpetological and ichthyological scientific societies to collaborate. — Wikipedia

Herpetology (Encyclopædia Britannica)

The Frog Life Cycle (National Library of Medicine)

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DDC: 597.89 Frogs (Library Thing)
Subject: Frogs (Library Thing)

Subject: Frogs (Open Library)

LCC: QL 668.E2 Frogs (UPenn Online Books)
Subject: Frogs (UPenn Online Books)

LCC: QL 668.E2 Frogs (Library of Congress)
Subject: Frogs (Library of Congress)

Subject: Frogs (WorldCat)

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