xenopid

English

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Etymology

From Xenopus +‎ -id.

Noun

xenopid (plural xenopids)

  1. (zoology) Any of the genus Xenopus of clawed frogs.
    • 1961, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: Volume 137:
      Concerning this latter point, however, it should be recalled that the xenopid larvae are equally microphagous and yet their manicotto structure is essentially of the ranid type.
    • 1972, Zdeněk V. Špinar, Tertiary frogs from Central Europe:
      On the tails of some tadpoles the melanophores which were scattered on the surface of the body are visible, in the same way as in the tadpoles of the xenopids.

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