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Hylidae

noun
1.
The amphibian family of tree frogs.  Synonym: family Hylidae.






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... extermination of all the others which did not happen to fit into their particular environment. One might almost say that tropical moist forests must have arboreal frogs and that these are made out of whatever suitable material happened to be available; in Australia and South America Hylidae, in Africa Ranidae, since there Hylas are absent. The deserts must have lizards capable of standing the glare, the great changes of temperature, of running over or burrowing into the loose sand. When as in America Iguanids are available, some ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others



Words linked to "Hylidae" :   Salientia, Anura, genus Hyla, order Salientia, amphibian family, Hyla, Pternohyla, tree frog, tree toad, order Batrachia, genus Acris, family Hylidae, Acris, order Anura, Pseudacris, Batrachia, tree-frog, genus Pseudacris, genus Pternohyla



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