Leptodactylid (Noun)
Meaning
Toothed frogs: terrestrial or aquatic or arboreal.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Leptodactylid frogs often undergo complex life cycles involving aquatic eggs, tadpoles, and either aquatic or terrestrial adult frogs.
- One key factor differentiating species within the Leptodactylidae family is whether the frogs tend towards an arboreal lifestyle.
- Habitats and local extinction are having detrimental impacts on aquatic populations of toothed leptodactylid species across much of Central America.
- Observing any specimen which meets both land-adapted forms - more recent descriptions sometimes specify different new semi-arboreal characteristics being characteristic - some refer that said instance typically Leptodactylid form too also possessing obvious terrestriality sometimes seem entirely one one is expected this behavior these display although habitat location factors certainly allow class one adapt sometimes land frogs although only some forms found to ever ascend in given scenario.
- Notably many arboreal Leptodactylid females exhibit a particular adaptation providing direct care at least during tadpole cultivation and release of said aquatic 'tadpoles.'