anuro

English translation: Order Anura

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Spanish term or phrase:anuro
English translation:Order Anura
Entered by: Pablo Mayen

22:37 Jun 5, 2005
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
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Spanish term or phrase: anuro
frogs and toads are tailless animals, but I´m looking for the Spp. name (guess is in latin)
Pablo Mayen
Mexico
Local time: 09:29
Order Anura
Explanation:
3 extant orders of Amphibians;

1. Order Urodela--¡±tailed ones¡±--salamanders--400 species

2. Order Anura--¡±tailless ones¡±--frogs and toads--3500 spp.--better adapted to land walking

3. Order Apoda--¡±legless ones¡±--caecilians, wormlike, burrowing--150 spp.

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Gabo Pena
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Thanx!

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Summary of answers provided
5 +5Anura
Muriel Vasconcellos
5anurus
Luis Zepeda
4 +1anurous, tailless/anuran (pl.) Anura
Oso (X)
5Order Anura
Gabo Pena


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Anura


Explanation:
The Anura is the order of animals in the class Quick Facts about: Amphibia ...
Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for ...
www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/A/An/Anura.htm

Muriel Vasconcellos
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agree  Zareh Darakjian Ph.D.: Definitely!
2 mins
  -> Thanks, Zareh!

agree  Oso (X): ¶:^)
10 mins
  -> Thanks, Oso!

agree  María Roberto (X): www.abdn.ac.uk/~nhi708/classify/ animalia/chordata/amphibia/anura/
15 mins
  -> Thanks, Maria!

agree  Marina Soldati
4 hrs
  -> Thanks, Marina!

agree  carlie602: gracias
5 hrs
  -> Thanks, Carlie!
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anurus


Explanation:
Webster's Unabridged dictionary Anurus=having no tail

Luis Zepeda
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anurous, tailless/anuran (pl.) Anura


Explanation:
Buena suerte y saludos del Oso ¶:^)

anuro, ra, (zool.) anurous, tailless m. (zool.) anuran; (pl.) Anura
Simon & Schuster's Bilingual Dictionary©

anuro, ra.
1. adj. Zool. Que carece de cola.
2. adj. Zool. Se dice de los batracios que tienen cuatro extremidades y carecen de cola; p. ej., la rana y el sapo. U. t. c. s.
3. m. pl. Zool. Orden de estos batracios.
DRAE©

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Note added at 2005-06-05 22:50:20 (GMT)
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\"The Order Anura

Frogs and Toads.
The members of this group, the largest of the living orders of amphibians, have loosely fitting skins, no tails when adult, bony pectoral girdles, and usually no ribs. Fertilisation is always external, and no species remains larval for life. The anatomy is specialised for jumping: the vertabral column is short, with extensively fused vertebrae, the main bones of the limbs are fused, and the hind limbs are much longer than the forelimbs. Frogs and toads breathe by moving the floor of the mouth, first drawing air into the mouth and then forcing it into the lungs after closing the nostrils. There are twelve families. ...\"

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~nhi708/classify/animalia/chordata/amp...



Oso (X)
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agree  Maria Boschero: Así lo encontré en Larousse.
20 mins
  -> Muchas gracias por el dato y por tu amable agrí, María. Saludos ¶:^)
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Order Anura


Explanation:
3 extant orders of Amphibians;

1. Order Urodela--¡±tailed ones¡±--salamanders--400 species

2. Order Anura--¡±tailless ones¡±--frogs and toads--3500 spp.--better adapted to land walking

3. Order Apoda--¡±legless ones¡±--caecilians, wormlike, burrowing--150 spp.



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