xenopid
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English
Etymology
Noun
xenopid (plural xenopids)
- (zoology) Any of the genus Xenopus of clawed frogs.
- 1961, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: Volume 137:
- Concerning this latter point, however, it should be recalled that the xenopid larvae are equally microphagous and yet their manicotto structure is essentially of the ranid type.
- 1972, Zdeněk V. Špinar, Tertiary frogs from Central Europe:
- On the tails of some tadpoles the melanophores which were scattered on the surface of the body are visible, in the same way as in the tadpoles of the xenopids.