Definition of Polypedatidae

1. Noun. Old World tree frogs.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Polypedatidae

Polyhymnia
Polyhymnian
Polymastigina
Polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae
Polymox
Polynemidae
Polynesia
Polynesian
Polynesian arrowroot
Polynesian tattler
Polynesians
Polyodon
Polyodon spathula
Polyodontidae
Polypedates
Polypedatidae (current term)
Polypheme
Polyphemus
Polyplax
Polypodiaceae
Polypodiales
Polypodium aureum
Polypodium glycyrrhiza
Polypodium polypodioides
Polypodium scouleri
Polypodium virgianum
Polypodium vulgare
Polyporus frondosus
Polyporus squamosus
Polyporus tenuiculus

Literary usage of Polypedatidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"... and Polypedatidae) being nearly universal ; five more extend each into five regions, while no less than thirteen of the families are confined to one, ..."

2. Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical by Victoria Institute (Great Britain) (1908)
"Polypedatidae. Ranidae. Discoglossidae. This comparison between the land animals of the southern lands of the western and eastern hemispheres, reveals some ..."

3. Island Life, Or, The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Alfred Russel Wallace (1880)
"... a tree-frog altogether peculiar to the islands, and forming a peculiar genus of the widespread tropical family Polypedatidae. It is found, Dr. Wright ..."

4. The Antananarvio Annual and Madagascar Magazine (1885)
"Amphibia seem only to be recorded from the Seychelles, where two genera of tree-frogs of the family Polypedatidae are found ; one (Megalixalus) , peculiar, ..."

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