Amphibia

American  

[am-fib-ee-uh] / æmˈfɪb i ə /

noun

1. the class comprising the amphibians.

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Etymology

Origin of Amphibia

1600–10; < New Latin < Greek amphíbia ( zôia ) (animals) living a double life, neuter plural of amphíbios. See amphibious

Example Sentences

Here we will consider the traditional groups Agnatha, Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves, and Mammalia, which constitute classes in the subphylum Vertebrata.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Pyron, R. A. & Wiens, J. J. 2011 A large-scale phylogeny of Amphibia including over 2,800 species, and a revised classification of extant frogs, salamanders, and caecilians.

From Scientific American • Jan. 25, 2013

These classes, adopting for popular exposition the old classification, are the Pisces, Amphibia, Eeptilia, Aves, Mammalia.

From The Gospel Of Evolution From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures by Aveling, Edward

In some groups, such as Reptiles and Amphibia, there are no representatives at all, but no doubt a larger number of species existed there in earlier Tertiary times.

From The History of the European Fauna by Scharff, Robert Francis

The other group of Paleozoic Amphibia that has been considered probably ancestral to any modern type is the subclass Lepospondyli, containing three orders, Aistopoda, Nectridia and Microsauria.

From The Ancestry of Modern Amphibia: A Review of the Evidence by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)