Anura


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Noun1.Anura - frogs, toads, tree toadsAnura - frogs, toads, tree toads    
Batrachia, order Anura, order Batrachia, order Salientia, Salientia
animal order - the order of animals
amphibia, class Amphibia - the class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water; frogs; toads; newts; salamanders; caecilians
family Ranidae, Ranidae - a family nearly cosmopolitan in distribution: true frogs
family Leptodactylidae, Leptodactylidae - New World frogs; in some classifications essentially coextensive with the family Bufonidae
family Polypedatidae, Polypedatidae - Old World tree frogs
Ascaphidae, family Ascaphidae - family of one species of frog: tailed frog
family Leiopelmatidae, family Liopelmidae, Leiopelmatidae, Liopelmidae - primitive New Zealand frogs
Bufonidae, family Bufonidae - true toads
Discoglossidae, family Discoglossidae - family of Old World toads having a fixed disklike tongue
family Pelobatidae, Pelobatidae - the amphibian family of spadefoot toads
family Hylidae, Hylidae - the amphibian family of tree frogs
Brevicipitidae, family Brevicipitidae, family Microhylidae, Microhylidae - narrow-mouthed toads and sheep frogs; some burrow and some are arboreal; found worldwide
family Pipidae, Pipidae - tongueless frogs
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Endoparasites of the eastern narrowmouth toad, Gastrophryne carolinensis (Anura: Microhylidae), from northwestern Louisiana and northeastern Texas, U.S.A.
Endoparasites of Hurter's spadefoot, Scaphiopus hurterii and plains spadefoot, Spea bombifrons (anura: Scaphiopodidae), from southern Oklahoma
Segnalazione di chytridiomicosi in popolazioni di Bombina pachypus (Anura, Bombinatoridae) dell' Appennino toscoemiliano.
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The request was in fact addressed to the European Commissioner for External Relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, by the Sri Lankan Foreign Minister, Anura Bandaranaike, in New York on September 16.
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As well as Ranatunga, the panel includes Ranjan Madugalle, Duleep Mendis, Bandula Warnapura, Roshan Mahanama, Michael Tissera, Anura Tennekoon, Sidath Wettimuny and Graeme Labrooy.
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Within a day after the bacteria attach to Schwann cells making myelin along nerves in cell culture, the nerves show significant loss of myelin, Anura Rambukkana of Rockefeller University in New York and his coworkers report in the May 3 Science.
Learning from leprosy's nerve damage. (Neuroscience)
''They have vanished into thin air and we don't know what they contained,'' Customs Assistant Chief Preventive Officer Anura Goonetillake told reporters Tuesday.
44 containers disappear from Colombo harbor
Former usher Maxine Coombes has complained to an industrial tribunal that Judge Anura Cooray, 61, pestered her with lurid suggestions in his chambers.
Shamed judge quits
A senior Appeal Court judge said Anura Cooray acted contrary to the Contempt of Court Act in the way he treated Bonnie Schot and Carol Barclay.
Jailed jurors judge rapped
Judge Anura Cooray sentenced Bonnie Schot, 20, and 32-year-old Carol Barclay to 30 days.
Judge rapped for jailing girl jurors
Anura Kumara Disanayake was announced as the presidential candidate at The 'National People's Power' rally of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) organized to declare their candidate at the Galle Face Green in Colombo on Sunday.
Anura Kumara Disanayake announced as JVP presidential candidate
In June this year former Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Anura Senanayake was served indictments over allegations he concealed evidence in the murder of rugby player Wasim Thajudeen.
Former JMO indicted in Wasim Thajudeen murder case

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