Definition of Family discoglossidae

1. Noun. Family of Old World toads having a fixed disklike tongue.

Exact synonyms: Discoglossidae
Generic synonyms: Amphibian Family
Group relationships: Anura, Batrachia, Order Anura, Order Batrachia, Order Salientia, Salientia
Member holonyms: Alytes, Genus Alytes, Bombina, Genus Bombina

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Discoglossidae

family Desmodontidae
family Diapensiaceae
family Diaspididae
family Dicamptodontidae
family Dicranaceae
family Didelphidae
family Dilleniaceae
family Dinornithidae
family Diodontidae
family Diomedeidae
family Dioscoreaceae
family Dipodidae
family Dipsacaceae
family Dipterocarpaceae
family Discoglossidae
family Doliolidae
family Dracunculidae
family Drepanididae
family Dromaeosauridae
family Droseraceae
family Drosophilidae
family Dryopteridaceae
family Dugongidae
family Dytiscidae
family Ebenaceae
family Echeneidae
family Echeneididae
family Edaphosauridae
family Eimeriidae

Literary usage of Family discoglossidae

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)
"... peculiar to Australia, but with one species in Paraguay ; and in the family Discoglossidae, the Australian genus ..."

2. A Text-book of Zoogeography by Frank Evers Beddard (1895)
"... arctic family Discoglossidae. It is curious that there are no scorpions in New Zealand *, since that family exists in Australia. ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Although toad like it is not really related to the toads proper, but belongs to the family Discoglossidae, characterized by a circular, adherent tongue, ..."

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