amphiuma in English

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a fully aquatic eellike amphibian with very small limbs, found in stagnant water and swamps in the southeastern US.
Unlike sirens, amphiumas retain both pairs of girdles and limbs, though both are reduced in size, and the limbs are often both difficult to discern and of decreased function in adults.

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1. Amphiuma synonyms, Amphiuma pronunciation, Amphiuma translation, English dictionary definition of Amphiuma

2. 2007 Sister taxa: Muraenopsis, PaleoAmphiuma, ProAmphiuma Subtaxa: Amphiuma antica, Amphiuma jepseni, Amphiuma means, Amphiuma pholeter, Amphiuma tridactylum View classification

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5. Amphiuma pholeter: pictures (1) Species Amphiuma tridactylum Three-toed Amphiuma

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11. Amphiuma is a genus of aquatic salamanders

12. Amphiuma tridactylum is a nocturnal carnivore

13. Amphiuma tridactylum is among the largest salamanders recorded

14. Amphiuma is a genus of aquatic salamanders

15. Amphiuma means, and numerous other aquatic vertebrates

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17. Amphiuma definition, an aquatic, eellike salamander of the genus Amphiuma, of the southeastern U.S., having two pairs of very small feet

18. Amphiuma, also called Congo eel, or Congo snake (Amphiuma), any of three species of North American salamanders belonging to the family Amphiumidae (order Caudata)

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20. Amphiuma are found in the southeastern United States

21. One-toed Amphiuma The one-toed Amphiuma (Amphiuma pholeter) is a rare type of salamander endemic to the Florida panhandle, southern Georgia, and Alabama's coastal region.In Alabama, it is found only in Mobile and Baldwin Counties

22. Amphiuma means, the two-toed Amphiuma, is the largest of the three species, reaching a maximum size of 116 cm (45.6 inches) in total length

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24. In fact, Amphiuma look like eels and are sometimes called Congo eels

25. The three-toed Amphiuma is an eel-like, completely aquatic salamander

26. Measuring up to 45.6 inches in length and armed with the teeth and attitude of an angry watersnake, the Two-Toed Amphiuma (Amphiuma means) is the largest of North America’s amphibians

27. Measuring as much as 45.6 inches in size and armed with the enamel and angle of an offended watersnake, the Two-Toed Amphiuma (Amphiuma means) is the largest of North America’s amphibians

28. The two-toed Amphiuma is the largest of the family, and is the longest salamander species in the United States, approaching four feet in total length. Amphiuma means is distinguishable, of course, by the number of toes

29. Among my favorite local reclusive critters is Amphiuma, or so-called Congo (conger) eel

30. The two-toed Amphiuma (Amphiuma means) has 20 teeth on each side of the upper jaw (4 of which are on the premaxilla), 16 teeth on each side of the lower jaw, and 14–15 on each vomer.

31. This is the largest of the Amphiuma species, attaining a length of 40 inches or more.

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33. This species, like other Amphiuma species, has two pairs of very minute and seemingly useless limbs

34. Amphiuma definition is - a genus (coextensive with the family Amphiumidae) of amphibians including only the congo snakes.

35. Characteristics: Species of Amphiuma are heavy-bodied, eel-like salamanders with four tiny, weakly developed limbs (Fig

36. Until, that is, they tangle with an angry Two Toed Amphiuma (Amphiuma means)! At a record length of 45.6 inches, this third longest of the world’s salamanders is a major predator in the waters it inhabits, and able to bite viciously in self-defense.

37. The one-toed Amphiuma is an elongated, eel-like salamander that reaches a maximum length of 30.5 cm (12 in)

38. This Amphiuma gets its name from the single toe on its atypically short front limbs, giving it an almost snake-like appearance.

39. Sometimes called the Congo Eel, the Three-toed Amphiuma is a slippery, snake-like, aquatic salamander of the Mississippi flood plain.

40. Any of several long slender salamanders of the genus Amphiuma of the southeast United States that in their adult stage have two pairs of very small

41. Ionic and Osmotic Effects Changes in external juxtaglomerular osmolarity, such as those observed in Amphiuma, may mediate the renin secretory response to a change of luminal NaCl.

42. Amphiuma tridactylum occurs in Coast Plain habitats from eastern Texas to western Alabama, and the range extends northwards up the Mississippi Valley to southeastern Missouri and extreme western Kentucky

43. In spite of these similarities, Amphiuma vertebrae (and the fossils) differ from those of Siren and Pseudobranchus in having less extensive alar processes, lacking widely diverged Aliform processes, having postzygapophyseal crests, and in having differently positioned transverse processes.

44. To characterize the mechanism of chloride transport across individual cell membranes, experiments were carried out on early distal tubules in the doubly perfused Amphiuma kidney and net chloride flux, transepithelial and transmembrane cell potentials, and intracellular chloride activity measured

45. Carr (1940a) reported finding a two-toed Amphiuma in Florida during January that was "under two feet of sphagnum and mud" and was "apparently hibernating.¡± The capture rate of these salamanders in a central Florida lake was positively correlated with mean monthly water temperature; fewer animals were captured during the cooler winter