Ascaphidae
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Ascaphidae is a family of frogs. They are called tailed frogs because they have an organ that looks like a tail. The tail helps them to live in fast-moving streams. They live in North America.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Unrecognized taxon (fix): | Ascaphus |
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Ascaphidae Media
Tailed frog size compared to a dime
Ascaphus montanus tadpole (supine position), showing the large oral sucker
References
- ↑ Wildlife - Environment - Green Diamond Resource Company. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
Books
- Gissi, Carmela. Mitochondrial phylogeny of Anura (Amphibia): A case study of congruent phylogenetic reconstruction using amino acid and nucleotide characters. Gene 366 (2) (February 2006). p. 228–237. doi:10.1016/j.gene.2005.07.034.
- Roelants, Kim. Archaeobatrachian paraphyly and pangaean diversification of crown-group frogs. Systematic Biology 54 (1) (February 2005). p. 111–126. doi:10.1080/10635150590905894.
Other websites
Media related to Ascaphidae at Wikimedia Commons
- Excerpt from Zeiner et al. 1988 describing tailed frogs Archived 2004-08-26 at the Wayback Machine
- Type information from the American Museum of Natural History