Compare Amphibians Padlet by

Anura

26ibryan — 2025-02-21 16:13:44 UTC

Urodela

26ibryan — 2025-02-21 16:14:16 UTC

Apoda

26ibryan — 2025-02-21 16:15:04 UTC

The number of species

26ibryan — 2025-02-21 16:16:36 UTC

Anura - 7,600

Urodela - 350

Apoda - 170

Evolutionary features that make it different from the other group.

26ibryan — 2025-02-21 16:25:41 UTC

Anura - Have a squat, tailless body, and long hind legs used for jumping, they have large, more developed eyes. They have an external tympanum, which isn't present in other amphibians.

Urodela - Have tails, an elongated slender and stout body with well-developed musculature.

Apoda - They are limbless, resembling earthworms in appearance. Are adapted for a soil-burrowing or aquatic lifestyle and are nearly blind.

Defense mechanisms

26ibryan — 2025-02-21 16:34:56 UTC

Anura - Coloration, protection against solar radiation, thermoregulation, osmoregulation, nitrogen metabolism, reproductive biology, and antipredator mechanisms.

Urodela - Skin secretions with pharmacological properties, biting, feigning death, and inflation.

Apoda - Skin secretions that deter predators, burrow underground to avoid being eaten, and coil/uncoil themselves to confuse predators.