eleutherodactyline
English
Wikispecies
Noun
eleutherodactyline (plural eleutherodactylines)
- (zoology) Any of the frogs of the genus Eleutherodactylus.
- 2007 June 12, Henry Fountain, “Warming in the Arctic? Blame the Snow. The Dirty Snow, That Is.”, in New York Times:
- Scientists at Penn State have penciled in the branches of the evolutionary tree of a major group of frogs, the eleutherodactylines, in the process making a surprising discovery: the species dispersed from South America to Central America and the Caribbean over water, not land.
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Related terms
- eleutherodactylid