disc-tongued frog

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disc-tongued frog (plural disc-tongued frogs)

  1. Any frog in the former family Discoglossidae, now known as the Alytidae.
    • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 36:
      Today, the common midwife toad can be found from the lowlands of southern Belgium to the sandy wastes of Spain, making it the most successful and widely distributed member of Europe’s oldest surviving vertebrate family, the Alytidae, a group comprising the midwife toads, the disc-tongued frogs, the firebellies and the painted frogs.

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