Newborn Tadpoles (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Newborn Tadpoles

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Two tadpoles, each about 10 millimeters long, shortly after birth. The newly described species Limnonectes larvaepartus is the only species of frog known to birth live tadpoles.

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Jim McGuire, UC Berkeley

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