eleutherodactyline

English

a Lesser Antillean whistling frog (Eleutherodactylus johnstonei)

Etymology

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Noun

eleutherodactyline (plural eleutherodactylines)

1. (zoology) Any of the frogs of the family Eleutherodactylidae.
   • 2007 June 12, Henry Fountain, “Warming in the Arctic? Blame the Snow. The Dirty Snow, That Is.”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

Related terms

• eleutherodactylid

References

• eleutherodactyline on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Eleutherodactylidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Eleutherodactylidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons