Classification

• The anurans include true frogs, tree frogs, and toads

• The urodeles are the tailed amphibians

• all of them resemble the most numerous members of this order--the salamanders.

• The gymnophions, or caecilians, are the least understood and most rarely seen amphibians. They are blind and limbless, with long, slender bodies, like worms or snakes.

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