'amphibian' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun used to refer to a type of animal, such as a frog or a salamander, that can live either on land or in water. For example, "The pond was filled with different types of amphibians, such as frogs and newts."
Backup colonies, insurance populations, or captive breeding troupes – whatever your preferred term – have increasingly become the norm in amphibian conservation.
I had been measuring the temperature and other environmental conditions of the lake and had sent these details to the amphibian keepers at London Zoo who were preparing to receive the frogs".
The EDGE currently lists the Lake Oku clawed frog (Xenopus longipes) as number 35 out of some 7,000 amphibian species in terms of its evolutionary distinctness (or how far they are separated from other species on the tree of life) and its proximity to extinction.
After the launch of YouTube in 2005, music fans were no longer forced to sit through a three minute performance by an animated, singing amphibian just to listen to the stereophonic perfection of Oasis' Lyla.
"We had no experience cultivating amphibian stem cells and were worried we would kill the few hundred that we had," says Dr Jensen.Another problem was that although some cells can survive for several days after an animal's death, many species' cells last only a few hours.
There are 181 known species of amphibian in the Western Ghats, 159 of them endemic (that is, found nowhere else).
Silicon Valley millionaires currently impress their friends by buying an amphibian vehicle to avoid the commuter traffic on the Bay Bridge.
LIKE its brethren, White's tree frog, a large green amphibian found in Australia, can climb perilously slippery slopes and perch upside down.
"What's alarming is the speed with which their populations crash," says Robin Moore, Conservation International's amphibian-conservation officer.
As is well known, these animals can regenerate entire amputated limbs.One mammal, however, can perform amphibian-like regeneration tricks.
In 1922 they began preparations for a pioneer round-the-world flight in a Vickers pusher-amphibian aircraft, but Ross was killed, together with Bennett, while testing the aircraft at Brooklands, and Keith abandoned the project.
