Definition of Order Salientia

1. Noun. Frogs, toads, tree toads.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Salientia

order Pycnogonida
order Radiolaria
order Rajiformes
order Ranales
order Ranunculales
order Raptores
order Rhamnales
order Rheiformes
order Rhoeadales
order Rhynchocephalia
order Rickettsiales
order Rodentia
order Rosales
order Rubiales
order Salicales
order Salientia (current term)
order Santalales
order Sapindales
order Saprolegniales
order Sarcosporidia
order Sarraceniales
order Saurischia
order Sauropterygia
order Scandentia
order Sclerodermatales
order Scleroparei
order Scorpionida
order Scrophulariales
order Secotiales
order Selaginellales

Literary usage of Order Salientia

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

1. Herpetology of Japan and Adjacent Territory by Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1907)
"... also in the Ussuri district. Beyond this nothing is known of the distribution of this species. Order SALIENTIA. 1768. ..."

2. A Manual of Fish-culture: Based on the Methods of the United States by United States Bureau of Fisheries, John J. Brice, Henry Frank Moore, Frederick M. Chamberlain (1897)
"The frogs are included in the order Salientia (the leapers), distinguished by having a short, depressed body and four limbs, the hind pair being much ..."

3. Laboratory Directions in Principles of Animal Biology by Aaron Franklin Shull, George Roger Larue, Alexander Grant Ruthven, Peter Olaus Okkelberg (1919)
"Order SALIENTIA. Frogs, toads. Characteristics. 2a. Tailless. See Rana, Hyla, Chorophilus, Acris, Bufo. 26. External gills absent in adult. ..."

4. The Frog Book: North American Toads and Frogs, with a Study of the Habits by Mary Cynthia Dickerson (1906)
"... those bones that form wing-like extensions of the sacral or ninth Vertebra and connect directly with the ilia or hip-bones. (Fig. 6.) Order SALIENTIA. ..."

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