Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A member of the Lissamphibia, a division of the Amphibia which contains those species which are covered with a smooth skin.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of the living amphibians, of the subclass Lissamphibia, including the frog and salamander families.
  • adjective Characteristic of these creatures.

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Examples

  • Interesting thing, spot a caudate lissamphibian while riding your Anura :

    Dead spotted salamander AYDIN 2008

  • Glaw & Köhler (1998) correctly predicted that the extant number of valid lissamphibian species would exceed 5000 by the year 2000, and Hanken (1999) wondered ‘Why are there so many new amphibian species when amphibians are declining?’.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • All of this data on new species matches the species discovery rates recorded for other lissamphibian groups.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • He saw that I was printing out Pounds et al’s (2006) recently published Nature paper on global lissamphibian extinctions.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Darren Naish 2006

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