Class of tetrapods, whose living forms include frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and caecilians

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Das Gehörorgan der Wirbelthiere : morphologisch-histologische Studien / von Gustaf Retzius.

Xenopus cancer kidney cells, prometaphase

Five species of toad. Engraving, ca. 1778.

Xenopus cancer kidney cells, interphase

Seven animals from Japan, including two frogs, a snail, a slug, a water-bug and a silver fish. Gouache painting.

Researcher using patch clamping apparatus for ion channel studies on frog oocytes. Researcher is Dr Paul Smith, Physiology Department, Oxford University.

Our reptiles and batrachians : a plain and easy account of the lizards, snakes, newts, toads, frogs and tortoises indigenous to Great Britain / by M.C. Cooke ... with original figures of every species and numerous woodcuts.

A history of British reptiles / By Thomas Bell.

A history of British reptiles / By Thomas Bell...Illustrated by more than forty woodcuts.

Herpetologia Mexicana, seu descriptio amphibiorum Novae Hispaniae, quae itineribus Comitis de Sack, Ferdinandi Deppe et Chr. Guil. Schiede in Museum Zoologicum Berolinense pervenerunt / Pars prima: saurorum species amplectens. Adiecto systematis saurorum prodromo, additisque multis in hunc amphibiorum ordinem observationibus, editit Dr. Arend Fridericus Augustus Wiegmann. Accedunt tabulae lithographicae decem, novorum generum typos exhibentes.

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Amphibians

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Our reptiles and batrachians : a plain and easy account of the lizards, snakes, newts, toads, frogs and tortoises indigenous to Great Britain / by M.C. Cooke ... with original figures of every species and numerous woodcuts.

Seven animals from Japan, including two frogs, a snail, a slug, a water-bug and a silver fish. Gouache painting.

A history of British reptiles / By Thomas Bell.

A history of British reptiles / By Thomas Bell...Illustrated by more than forty woodcuts.

Amphibians

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Works from the collections

Our reptiles and batrachians : a plain and easy account of the lizards, snakes, newts, toads, frogs and tortoises indigenous to Great Britain / by M.C. Cooke ... with original figures of every species and numerous woodcuts.

Seven animals from Japan, including two frogs, a snail, a slug, a water-bug and a silver fish. Gouache painting.

A history of British reptiles / By Thomas Bell.

A history of British reptiles / By Thomas Bell...Illustrated by more than forty woodcuts.

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