Coastal Tailed Frog (Ascaphus truei) - female, vertical pupils are an identifying feature
Description:
Tailed Frogs are a uniquely strange and ancient frog family. Tails are present only on males (because they're, um, not tails). They live in clear, fast moving mountain streams. I'm incredibly excited to have encountered these amazing animals for the first time in Oregon's Opal Creek wilderness.
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- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (animals)
- Bilateria
- Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
- Chordata (Chordates)
- Vertebrata (vertebrates)
- Gnathostomata (jawed fish)
- Osteichthyes (bony fish)
- Sarcopterygii (Lobe-finned fishes)
- Tetrapoda (terrestrial vertebrates)
- Lissamphibia (amphibians)
- Anura (frogs and toads)
- Ascaphidae (tailed frogs)
- Ascaphus (tailed frog)
- Ascaphus truei (Coastal tailed frog)
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