Sunday, January 27, 2008

Strange Amphibians

1) Chinese giant salamander

2) Sagalla caecilian - a limbless amphibian with sensory tentacles on the sides of its head


3) Purple frog - lives 4m underground for most of the year

4) Ghost frogs of South Africa - so-called as one species is found only in the traditional human burial grounds of Skeleton Gorge in Table Mountain, South Africa

5) Olm - a blind salamander that can survive without food for ten years

6) Lungless salamanders of Mexico

7) Malagasy rainbow frog

8) Chile Darwin's frog - feared to already be extinct as it has not officially be seen since 1980

9) Betic midwife toad - the males carry the fertilised eggs wrapped around their hind legs

10) Gardiner's Seychelles frog – the size of a drawing pin

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