web-toed salamanders

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• web-toed salamander — noun any of several salamanders with webbed toes and very long extensile tongues; excellent climbers that move with ease over smooth rock surfaces • Hypernyms: ↑salamander • Hyponyms: ↑Shasta salamander, ↑Hydromantes shastae, ↑limestone… …   Useful english dictionary

• Hydromantes — Taxobox name = Web toed Salamanders regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Amphibia ordo = Caudata familia = Plethodontidae genus = Hydromantes genus authority = Gistel, 1848 subdivision ranks = Species subdivision = See table. Hydromantes …   Wikipedia

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• genus Hydromantes — noun web toed salamanders • Syn: ↑Hydromantes • Hypernyms: ↑amphibian genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Plethodontidae, ↑family Plethodontidae • Member Meronyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• Hydromantes — noun web toed salamanders • Syn: ↑genus Hydromantes • Hypernyms: ↑amphibian genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Plethodontidae, ↑family Plethodontidae • Member Meronyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

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