Amphibian
class of tetrapods, whose living forms include frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and caecilians
Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniotic, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class Amphibia. All extant amphibians belong to the monophyletic subclass Lissamphibia, with three living orders: Anura (frogs and toads), Urodela (salamanders), and Gymnophiona (caecilians).
Quotes
edit- Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the tadpole, the wall newt, and the water.
- William Shakespeare, King Lear, III, iv
- Toward misted and ebullient seas
And cooling shores, toward lost Amphibia’s emperies.- Richard Wilbur, "The Death of a Toad", in Poetry (February 1948)
- Salamander in his dripping cave
Satanic ebon-amber;
... Eft of cumbrous gait,
And toads who love rank grasses near a grave.- John Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley, "Circe", Poems Dramatic and Lyrical (1893), p. 37
