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Amphibians. Advanced Life Science Rainier Jr/Sr High School Mr. Taylor. Amphibians. Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Subphylum Vertebrata Class Amphibia. Amphibians. Amphibians are the first vertebrates to walk on land Several challenges to overcome Loss of buoyancy
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Amphibians Advanced Life Science Rainier Jr/Sr High School Mr. Taylor
Amphibians • Kingdom Animalia • Phylum Chordata • Subphylum Vertebrata • Class Amphibia
Amphibians • Amphibians are the first vertebrates to walk on land • Several challenges to overcome • Loss of buoyancy • No water for O2 movement • How to get reproductive cells together
Amphibian Characteristics • Legs to lift body from ground • These were placed on the side of the body in a quadrapedal stance • Lungs • Larvae have gills, most adults have primitive lungs • Double loop circulation • heart to lungs to heart to body to heart
Amphibian Characteristics • Partial division of heart chambers • 3 chambers created by division of atrium, single ventricle • Reduces mixing of oxygenated and unoxygenated blood • Cutaneous respiration (skin breathers) • Diffusion of gasses across skin (thin, moist)
3 Orders of Amphibians • Anura: “without tail”: frogs and toads • Urodela: “with tail”: salamanders and newts • Apoda: “without feet”: caecelians
Anurans • Frogs and toads • Adults are carnivorous, mostly insectivores • Have a sticky tongue attached at the front • External fertilization in bodies of water. • Eggs hatch to tadpoles • Gills for respiration • Mostly algae eaters • Tadpoles undergo metamorphosis to become adults with lungs
Anurans • Tympanum: “eardrum” to detect sound vibrations • Good eyesight: are sight hunters • Brain • Increased size of cerebrum (thinking part) over that of fish
Urodelans • Salamanders and newts • Must remain near water or in wet environments • Much more reliance on cutaneous respiration • Most use external fertilization • Some females will pick up “packets” of sperm deposited by males. May remain fertile for extended periods of time.
Urodelans • Young hatch looking very similar to adult forms • Use gills for respiration • Most mature to lunged adults • Those not maturing to lungs are considered “neotonic” meaning they retain juvenile characteristics.
Apodans • Caecelians • Older forms had legs (fossil evidence) • Live underground and in burrows • This trait is called “fossorial” • Internal fertilization • Many live in South America/Africa • Little else known about these secretive animals