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Biology
Chapter
25 - Early Tetrapods and Amphibians
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Amphibians - first land animals
Animals that have
gills and lungs during
their life cycle…
“transition animals” From Water to Land
Movement from water to
land is perhaps the most
dramatic event in animal
evolution
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What Is an Amphibian?
What Is an Amphibian?
An amphibian is a vertebrate that, with
some exceptions:
• lives in water as a larva and on land as
an adult
• breathes with gills as young and lungs
as an adult
• has moist skin that contains mucous
glands
• lacks scales and claws
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Evolution of Amphibians
How are amphibians adapted for life
on land? How have they evolved?
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Evolution of Amphibians
Lobe-finned fishes (lungfish)
are the sister group to tetrapods
Differences in the Tetrapods:
Have stronger backbone
Muscles to support the body in air
Muscles to elevate the head
Stronger shoulder and hip girdles
More protective rib cage
Modified ear structure to detect airborne sounds
Foreshortening of skull
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Evolution of Amphibians
Evolution of Amphibians
The first amphibians appeared about 360 million years
ago.
The transition from water to land required that the
terrestrial vertebrates had to:
• breathe air
• protect themselves and their eggs from drying out
• support themselves against the pull of gravity
Vascular plants, pulmonate snails, and tracheate arthropods made
transition earlier
Amphibians only living vertebrates that have a transition from water to
land in their development
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Evolution of Amphibians
Showing evolutionary link
to fossil record. “Missing Link”
organism from water (fish)
to land (tetrapods).
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Evolution of Amphibians
Lungs and breathing tubes enabled
amphibians to breathe air.
The sternum formed a bony shield to
support and protect internal organs,
especially the lungs.
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Amphibian Adaptations
Lungs
Pelvic Girdle
Leg Bones:
The legs of a land
vertebrate must be
strong enough to hold
its weight.
Skin: The skin and the lining of
the mouth cavity of many adult
amphibians are thin and richly
supplied with blood vessels.
Watery mucus is secreted by
glands in the skin.
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In many adult amphibians, the internal surfaces of the
lungs are richly supplied with blood vessels and folds
that increase surface area.
Lungs
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Form and Function in Amphibians
Form and Function in Amphibians
The class Amphibia is relatively small and diverse.
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Feeding
Tadpoles are typically filter feeders or herbivores
that graze on algae.
Their intestines help break down hard-to-digest
plant material and are usually filled with food.
The feeding apparatus and digestive tract of adults
are meat-eating structures.
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Frog Anatomy
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Adult amphibians are almost entirely carnivorous.
Many salamanders and frogs have long, sticky
tongues specialized to capture insects.
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Mouth
In a frog’s digestive
system, food slides down
the esophagus into the
stomach.
Esophagus
Stomach
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The breakdown of food
begins in the stomach
and continues in the
small intestine.
Small intestine
Stomach
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The liver, pancreas, and
gallbladder secrete
substances that aid in Gallbladder
digestion.
Liver
Pancreas
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At the end of the large
intestine is a muscular
cavity called the cloaca,
through which digestive
wastes, urine, and eggs
or sperm leave the body.
Large
intestine
(colon)
Cloaca
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Respiration
In most larval amphibians, gas exchange occurs through
the skin and the gills.
Adult amphibians typically respire using lungs, but some
gas exchange occurs through the skin and the lining of the
mouth.
SKIN:
Thin skin loses water rapidly
Restricts terrestrial forms to moist habitats
Ectotherms
Body temperature depends on environment and restricts range
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Circulation
In frogs and other adult amphibians, the circulatory
system forms a double loop.
The first loop carries oxygen-poor blood from the
heart to the lungs and skin, and takes oxygen-rich
blood from the lungs and skin back to the heart.
The second loop transports oxygen-rich blood from
the heart to the rest of the body, and carries
oxygen-poor blood from the body back to the heart.
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The amphibian heart has three separate chambers:
•left atrium
•right atrium
•ventricle
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To body,
lungs and
skin
Amphibian
Heart
From
Body
To body,
lungs and
skin
From
Lungs
Left
atrium
Right
atrium
Ventricle
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Excretion
Amphibians have kidneys that filter wastes from
the blood.
Urine travels through tubes called ureters into the
cloaca.
Urine is then passed directly to the outside, or
temporarily stored in a small urinary bladder just
above the cloaca.
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Reproduction - at age 1 or 2 years
In most species of amphibians, the female lays
eggs in water, then the male fertilizes them
externally.
In a few species, including most salamanders,
eggs are fertilized internally using spermatophore.
After fertilization, frog eggs are encased in a sticky,
transparent jelly.
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The jelly attaches the egg mass to underwater plants
and makes the eggs difficult for predators to grasp.
The yolks of the eggs nourish the embryos.
(Oviparous)
Most amphibians abandon their eggs after they lay
them.
A few amphibians take care of both eggs and young.
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Frog Metamorphosis
Age 1 or 2 years
Adult
Frog
Carnivores
Lose tails
and gills
Fertilized
eggs
Young
Frog
Few days to
several weeks
Tadpoles
Herbivores
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Response
Amphibians have well-developed nervous and
sensory systems.
An amphibian's eyes are protected from damage
and kept moist by a transparent nictitating
membrane.
This membrane is located inside the regular eyelid
and can be closed over the eye.
Pupils: Do they constrict?
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Amphibians hear through tympanic membranes, or
eardrums, located on each side of the head.
Many amphibian larvae and adults have lateral line
systems that detect water movement.
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Frog’s Sense Organs
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Groups of Amphibians
What are the main groups of living
amphibians?
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Groups of Amphibians
The three groups of amphibians alive today are:
• Salamanders: Order Urodela - tail evident
(Order Caudata)
• frogs and toads: Order Anura - without tail
(Order Salientia)
• Caecilians: Order Apoda (aka: - naked snake)
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Salamanders Order Caudata
(Urodela)
Salamanders and newts have long bodies and tails.
Most have four legs, @ right angles to body.
Respiration can occur through salamander skin, and lungs
Both adults and larvae are carnivores.
Adults usually live in moist woods, where they tunnel under
rocks and rotting logs.
Internal Fertilization: Female recovers in cloaca a
spermatophore deposited on a leaf or stick
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Larval Salamander
Red-Spotted Newt: Aquatic larva metamorphoses into red-eft, which
remains on land for 1-3 years, until becoming secondary aquatic adult.
A newt is a small salamander
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Salamanders and Paedomorphosis
Descendants retain into adulthood features that were
present in larval stages of ancestors
2 species of salamanders that
exhibit paedomorphosis.
They both have their gills during
their life cycle.
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Frogs and Toads - Order Anura (Salientia)
All have a tailed larval stage and tailless, jumping adults
(except for 1 species - Ascaphus)
Frogs and toads have the ability to jump.
Toads have thicker skin, covered in “warty” projection
glands that secrete poison. The poison is only harmful if
swallowed or gets in your eyes.
Must live near water source
Reproduction mode requires water
Skin is water-permeable skin
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Coastal Tailed Frog
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Tree Frog
44 families of frogs and toads
Family Ranidae
common larger frogs
in North America
Family Hylidae
Includes the tree frogs
Family Bufonidae (toads)
Contains toads with
thicker skins and prominent warts
Frogs
Conraua goliathLargest frog
Toad
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African Clawed Frog - has been introduced to California in 1940 (researchers
used frog in Pregnancy tests) , and is now a huge pest. Aggressive and has
caused a decline in native frogs. Similar to when huge toads were introduced
to Australia.
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Epidermis has two types of integumentary glands
•Mucous glands secrete protective waterproofing
•Large serous glands produce a whitish, watery poison
Dendrobatid frogs of South America secrete highly toxic skin
poisons
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Skeleton of frog: notice human similarities and differences.
Feet - 5 digits, hand - 4 digits
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Respiration in frogs:
No diaphragm to help, instead use
pressure within cavities.
A. Force mouth down, air moves
into mouth thru nostrils
A. Force mouth up, air forced into lungs
B. Mouth ventilates
C. Muscles in abdominal wall and
recoiling of lungs forces air out.
Most Carbon Dioxide is lost through
the skin, not lungs.
Vocal cord more developed in males.
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Caecilians - Order Apoda
Caecilians are legless animals that live in water or burrow
in moist soil or sediment. Most species are blind
Caecilians feed on small invertebrates such as termites.
Found in S.America, Africa, India (Up to 1.5 M)
Have vertebrae, skull, and long ribs.
Internal Fertilization (some have copulatory organ)
Most Oviparous, although some viviparous (young feed on
walls of oviduct).
Larva - some aquatic, some metamorphosis internally and
are born as adults
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Female coiled around eggs
Pink headed caecilian- W.Africa
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Continue to:
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The word amphibian refers to the ability to
a. live in hot climates.
b. live in wet places.
c. live both in water and on land.
d. live in cold and hot climates.
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Amphibians that maintain their ancestral larval
forms throughout life (paedomorphosis) are
a. Caecilians
b. Mud Puppies
c. Salamanders
d. Toads
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In a larval amphibians, gas exchange occurs
through
a. both the lungs and the skin.
b. both the skin and the gills.
c. the gills only.
d. in a lung.
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The tympanic membrane in a frog enables it to
a. hear.
b. see.
c. smell.
d. taste.
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Which of the following is the order for
salamanders?
a. Anura
b. Apoda
c. Caudata
d. Caecilians
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