单词 | pelobatoid |
释义 | pelobatoidadj.n. Zoology. A. adj. Of, relating to, or designating anuran amphibians of a type represented by the genus Pelobates and family Pelobatidae (sometimes placed in a group Pelobatoidea). ΚΠ 1880 Amer. Naturalist 14 287 He adopts the system proposed by Cope in 1864 in which Discoglossus is placed with Bombinator and Alytes in a special section of the Anura, apart from the ranoid and pelobatoid types. 1888 Athenæum 3 Mar. 279/2 He regarded their total absence in Pelobates and Pelodytes as fresh evidence of the pelobatoid, rather than the discoglossid affinities of the last-named genus. 1994 Ann. Carnegie Mus. 63 171 Sculpturing commonly occurs on the outer surface of pelobatoid dermal skull bones. 1995 Systematic Biol. 44 260/2 This prominence is fully lacking in the ascaphid/leiopelmatid frog assemblage and in pelobatoid frogs. B. n. A pelobatoid amphibian. ΚΠ 1896 Proc. Zool. Soc. 553 I have received..a copy of the description of a new Pelobatoid. 1982 Systematic Zool. 31 318/1 Promising outgroups include bufonoids and pelobatoids..as well as sooglossids. 1993 Systematic Biol. 42 507/2 The polarity of this character..is ambiguous because of the unresolved nature of relationships among the clades of pelobatoids. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1880 |
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