tadpoles in English

noun
1
the tailed aquatic larva of an amphibian (frog, toad, newt, or salamander), breathing through gills and lacking legs until its later stages of development.
Early in its development a tadpole breathes with gills.
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1. Bullfrog tadpoles mainly eat algae, aquatic plant material, and invertebrates, but they will also eat the tadpoles of other frog species

2. And then they become tadpoles and frogs. "

3. 1 The tadpoles metamorphose and emerge onto land.

4. I love tadpoles on toast almost as much as I love caviar

5. Tadpoles of some species are brightly colored, a rare trait among Anurans

6. Tadpoles eat algae, suspended matter, organic debris and plant tissue.

7. Until then, you need to keep your tadpoles in the tank.

8. "Bullfrogs have an order of magnitude advantage from the get-go." Bullfrog tadpoles are also less palatable to [Arizona's] native and most non-native fish than the native tadpoles, according to

9. It's noticed the wriggling tadpoles at the bottom of the leaf.

10. I love tadpoles on toast almost as much as I love caviar.

11. High concentrations of heavy water (90%) rapidly kill fish, tadpoles, flatworms, and Drosophila.

12. The tadpoles of some spadefoot toads are gregarious and form large moving shoals.

13. • Hind feet have two prominent tubercles for digging, the inner one large, outer one small Tadpoles:

14. In fact, we have watched the fish take tadpoles into their mouths, then swiftly eject them.

15. 30 Over the Easter term, the inky tadpoles changed from commas into exclamation marks.

16. How could the eggs be prevented from drying out and how could tadpoles develop out of water?

17. Eggs are laid and the tadpoles grow rapidly as they must reach metamorphosis before the water evaporates.

18. After a fortnight, the whole of the female's back is rippling with the movements of the tadpoles beneath.

19. Previous workers have noted that cricket frog tadpoles of the genus Acris have black tail tips.

20. Even the earth, replenished by months of monsoon water, rumbled festively under the renewed activities of tadpoles and bougainvilleas.

21. Furthermore, if stages are indeterminate (i.e., asynchrony), then 5 tadpoles from each replicate should be randomly chosen for histological analysis.

22. The male remains with the eggs to protect them and allows the tadpoles to climb onto his back where they are kept moist.

23. In July 2011, young-of-the-year bullfrog tadpoles (n = 7) were negative for Alveolate parasites, but 1 gopher frog tadpole was positive

24. This was estimated from responses to adenohypophyseal implants next to dermal melanophores of intact Rana temporaria tadpoles, as compared with control implants of embryonic myelencephalic tissue.

25. The anterior-most ectoderm of Ascidian larvae contains the adhesive papillae, or palps, which play an important role in triggering the metamorphosis of swimming tadpoles

26. 12 Sometimes "larger" animals, such as tadpoles or worms, wind up half in and half out of the trap, gruesomely losing part of their body to the plant's hunger.

27. However, Hochstetter's frog lays its eggs in shallow ponds and has free-living tadpoles, although they do not swim far from the place of hatching, or even feed, before metamorphosing into adult frogs.

28. ‘Axillary Amplexus typically results in long strings of eggs being laid in ponds or streams, which hatch into type IV tadpoles.’ ‘Once this headlock - the scientific term is Amplexus - has been achieved, the two can be disentangled only by force.’

29. ‘Axillary Amplexus typically results in long strings of eggs being laid in ponds or streams, which hatch into type IV tadpoles.’ ‘Once this headlock - the scientific term is Amplexus - has been achieved, the two can be disentangled only by force.’