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Pelobatidae(Scin) - English
URL: http://imnh.isu.edu/digitalatlas/bio/amph/anurans/scin/scin.htm

Great Basin Spadefoot Toad Species Account.

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Homepage of Timothy: Family Megophryidae (formerly Pelobatidae) - English
URL: http://www.geocities.com/slowloris9/amphibia/pelobati/pelobati.htm

Photos.

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Pelobatidae - English
URL: http://www.swissherp.org/Amphibians/Pelobatidae/Pelobatidae.html

Pictures of Pelobatidae from all over the world.

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Pelobatidae: Spadefoots - English
URL: http://www.marshall.edu/herp/Old/pelobatidae.htm

The spadefoot toads include nine genera with over 80 species worldwide. Examples of spadefoots may be found in Europe, Asia, northern Africa, and North America (including Mexico). The name "spadefoot" comes from the dark, cornified spur along the base of the inner toe. Spadefoots usually live in sandy soil and use this spur for digging themselves into a burrow. Only one genus occurs in the United States.

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Pelobatidae - English
URL: http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Pelobatidae&contgroup=Salientia

Geographic Distribution. Discussion of Phylogenetic Relationships.

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AmphibiaWeb Species List: Pelobatidae - English
URL: http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/aw/lists/Pelobatidae.shtml

The vernacular name of this family, spadefoot toads, indicates one of the more distinctive features of the members of this family. They possess a horny tubercle on the rear edge of each hind foot that is used when these animals bury themselves rear first.

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PELOBATIDAE--Tutorial and Key to the Anuran Tadpoles of the United States and Canada - English
URL: http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/tadpole/division_6.htm

Tadpoles of the United States and Canada: A Tutorial and Key Ronald Altig, Roy W. McDiarmid, Kimberly A. Nichols and Paul C. Ustach.

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Pelobatidae family - English
URL: http://www.fs.fed.us/r4/amphibians/family_pelobatidae.htm

The spadefoot toads inhabit arid regions of North America. They are named after the horny, dark, sharp-edged "spade" like tubercle found on each hind foot. The spade is used to excavate daytime burrows. They also have short snouts, vertical pupils, relatively smooth skin, teeth in upper jaw and no parotoid glands; characteristics which help distinguish them from the true toads (Family Bufonidae). Another difference is amplexus; it is pelvic spadefoot toads and pectoral in true toads.

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Amphibia, Anura, Pelobatidae - Froschkцten - German
URL: http://www.faunistik.net/BSWT/AMPHIBIA/pelobatidae01.html

Merkmale der Pelobatidae - Froschkroeten (Bestimmungsuebungen an Voegeln & Saeugern).

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I Pelobatidi, Pelobatidae - Italian
URL: http://www.ittiofauna.org/webmuseum/anfibi/pelobatidae.htm

Photo.

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Чесночницы - Russian
URL: http://lyagushka.narod.ru/nauka/Pub/chesn.html

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Распространены преимущественно в Западной и Юго-Восточной Азии, а также в Европе, Северо-Западной Африке, Северной и Центральной Америке. 10-12 родов, около 60 видов. В России — 2 рода (3 вида) — собственно чесночницы и крестовки. Содержат в террариумах обычно рогатых чесночниц.

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