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| Family: True frogs, firmisternal pectoral girdle, urostyle with 2 condyles, digits not expanded, horizontal pupil, type IV tadpoles |
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| Family: tailed frogs. Have an external, tail-like copulatory organ. Live in fast-flowing streams, Type III larvae. Vertical, elliptical pupils. Arciferal pectoral girdle. |
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| Family: Spade foot toads. Type IV larvae, desert-dwellers. Vertical pupils, well-ossified hallux. |
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| Family: frogs often with aposematic coloration, display toxic coloration using unken reflex. Type III larvae, often small aquatic toads. Arciferal pectoral girdle. |
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| Family: Tongueless frogs, lateral line system, round pupil, undeveloped eyelids, type I tadpole. |
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| CO species: wood frog, with brown facial "mask" around eyes |
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| CO species: Bullfrog, introduced species. Large tympanum. |
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| CO species: plains leopard frog, usually brown, have dark spots and visible white line on lateral folds. Usually has a well-defined pale spot in the center of the tympanum. |
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| CO species: northern leopard frog, green or brown in color, white lines on continuous lateral folds. |
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| CO species: couch's spadefoot toad, sickle shaped spade. No boss between eyes. |
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| CO species: plains spadefoot toad, bony boss between eyes. |
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| CO species: New mexico spadefoot toad, no boss between eyes, wedge shaped spade. |
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| CO species: great basin spadefoot toad, boss between eyes usually glandular. |
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| Family: narrow-mouthed frogs. Type II larvae, usually fossorial. Firmisternal pectoral girdle. Teardrop shaped bodies. |
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| CO species: narrow mouth toad. |
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Family: True toads. Usually shortened forelimbs, hindlimbs used for
walking or hopping, dry warty skin, and parotoid glands behind eyes. Have Bidder's organ and type IV tadpole. |
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CO species: Western, Mountain, or Boreal toad. White dorsal stripe, oval
paratoids well separated |
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CO species: great plains toad. Elongate parotoid glands, paired light-edged spots,
cranial crests with more than one angle. |
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| CO species: green toad. weak crainial crest, large elongate parotoids, small and flat body shape. |
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| CO species: red spotted toad. Parotoids round and eye-size or smaller, pointy face |
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| CO species: Woodhouse's toad. Often with white dorsal stripe, elongated parotoid glands, distinct cranial crest with only 1 angle |
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| Family: Poison dart frogs. Diurnal, firmisternal pectoral girdle, type IV larvae, dermal glandular pad on top of digital pad. |
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| Family: Tree frogs. usually have distinct adhesive toe discs that contain a cartilage that offsets the terminal phalanx, Type IV larvae. Arciferal pectoral girdle. |
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| CO species: Northern cricket frog. White bar on side of face, black stripe through thigh |
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| CO species: Canyon treefrog, Eye stripe absent, enlarged toe pads with extensive webbing |
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| CO species: Western chorus frog. Mottled with stripes and/or spots, eye stripe present, and toepads extremely small. |
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