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Description: | The Zoology Museum owns approximately 180 Amphibian specimens. The collection includes 140 frog specimens; 122 of which are skeletal (including 40 articulated skeletons, 34 disarticulated skeletons and 48 skulls and mandibles). A variety of frogs are represented, including common (Rana temporaria), horned, clawed, bull and tree frogs. There are also 10 specimens of toads in the collection, including Darwin's toad, and common and cane toads. In addition, the museum owns various salamander specimens, such as the fire, blind European, hellbender and great siren salamanders, and 5 newt specimens. Some of the Amphibian specimens were made by T. Gerrard and Co. Wynne-Edward's collection of freshwater vertebrates include a small amount of Amphibian specimens (see individual collection-level description for more details).
Items of particular interest in the collection are fluid preserved specimens depicting newt, common frog and toad metamorphosis.
Super collection: Zoology Museum.
Sub - collection: Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards' freshwater vertebrates of the arctic and sub-arctic collection.
Objects: Amphibians belonging to the following orders: Gymnophiona; Caudata ; Salicitia (Rana temporaria, in particular). | Subjects: | Zoology amphibians. | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Address: | King's College,
AB24 3FX | Identifier: | ABDUZ:CLD17 | Relation: | ABDUA:CLD00 | Go to resource |
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