Amphibians
Amphibia
Amphibians are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates of the class Amphibia. Modern amphibians are all Lissamphibia. They inhabit a wide variety of habitats, with most species living within terrestrial, fossorial, arboreal or freshwater aquatic ecosystems. Thus amphibians typically start out as larvae living in water, but some species have developed behavioural adaptations to bypass this. The young generally undergo metamorphosis from larva with gills to an adult air-breathing form with lungs. Amphibians use their skin as a secondary...
3 branches of this class, most-observed first · about 8,976 known species
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Recorded sightings
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte
Wilhelm, Gottlieb Tobias · 1792 · p.367
![Amphibians in 本草綱目圖3卷. [3]](https://images.sourcelibrary.org/gallery/69e787e64a6785cfd60ce28f/69e787e64a6785cfd60ce2a5-0.jpg?v=1781723417183)
本草綱目圖3卷. [3]
Li Shizhen · 1596 · p.22
Vorpforte der Schul-Unterweisung
Comenius, Jan Amos · 1678 · p.48
The Visible World (Orbis Sensualium Pictus)
Jan Amos Comenius · 1698 · p.70
Thesaurus of Medical Things of New Spain, or History of Mexican Plants, Animals, and Minerals
Francisco Hernández; Nardo Antonio Recchi (ed.) · 1651 · p.356
August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof — Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium (1758)
August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof · 1758 · p.81
Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte / 3 Die Amphibien
Wilhelm, Gottlieb Tobias · 1794 · p.417
Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte / 3 Die Amphibien
Wilhelm, Gottlieb Tobias · 1794 · p.365
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 20978.