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Batrachia

noun

Frogs, toads, tree toads. Synonyms: Anura, order Anura, order Batrachia, order Salientia, Salientia.

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... to the trigeminal nerve—the relationships of this (which he proposed to term the "hyporhinal" or palato-nasal division) and the ophthalmic (to have been termed the "orbitonasal" (A term already applied by him in 1875 to the corresponding nerve in the Batrachia. ("Encyclopaedia Britannica" 9th edition, volume 1 article "Amphibia."))) to the trabecular arch and a supposed prae-mandibular visceral cleft, being regarded as repetitional of those of the maxillary and mandibular divisions to the mandibular cleft. So far as I am aware, von Kupffer is the ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley

... any idea of even the class of Vertebrata to which the animal should be referred.'[5] Soon after, some teeth and fragments of bones were discovered, by which Professor Owen was able to indicate an animal of the frog-family (Batrachia), but with certain affinities to the saurian order (crocodiles, &c.), and which must have been about the size of a large pig. It has been pretty generally concluded, that this colossal frog was the animal ...

— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 - Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852 • Various

Words linked to "Batrachia" : Pelobatidae, order Batrachia, family Leptodactylidae, family Ascaphidae, family Pipidae, order Anura, class Amphibia, family Discoglossidae, Salientia, Hylidae, Bufonidae, family Hylidae, Ascaphidae, Brevicipitidae, amphibia, Anura, Discoglossidae, family Liopelmidae, Pipidae, Microhylidae, family Brevicipitidae, family Pelobatidae, family Microhylidae, family Polypedatidae, Liopelmidae, family Ranidae, family Leiopelmatidae, animal order, family Bufonidae, Leptodactylidae, order Salientia, Polypedatidae, Leiopelmatidae, Ranidae