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The Surinam horned frog (Ceratophrys cornuta), also known as Amazonian horned frog, is a bulky frog measuring up to 20 centimetres (7.9 in) found in the northern part of South America. It has an exceptionally wide mouth, and has horn-like projections above its eyes. Females lay up to 1,000 eggs at a time, and wrap them around aquatic plants.
The Surinam toad catches prey by entraining large volumes of water for ingestion and by limiting fish escape with its fingers. It uses bidirectional suction, a process the frog initiates by depressing its hyoid and retracting its clavicle. The amount of entrained water the frog can ingest is related to its ability to actively increase its body ...
Brazilian horned frog or Wied's frog: Brazil. Ceratophrys calcarata Boulenger, 1890: Colombian horned frog: Colombia and Venezuela Ceratophrys cornuta (Linnaeus, 1758) Surinam horned frog: northern part of South America Ceratophrys cranwelli Barrio, 1980: Cranwell's horned frog: Gran Chaco region of Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil.
Pages in category "Frogs of Peru" The following 133 pages are in this category, out of 133 total. ... Surinam horned frog; Syncope tridactyla; T. Telmatobius mendelsoni;
Surinam horned frog; V. Venezuelan horned frog This page was last edited on 18 December 2014, at 21:54 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Pages in category "Amphibians of Suriname" ... Surinam horned frog; Synapturanus mirandaribeiroi; T. Troschel's tree frog; V. Vitreorana ritae; W. White-lined leaf frog;
1. That frog isn’t a frog. A horned frog is a Texas lizard. It’s not a frog. Don’t ask. (The “Horned Frog” hand sign used since 1980 shows the horned lizard’s “horns.” That is not ...
Hymenochirus Boulenger 1896 - dwarf clawed frogs (4 species) Pipa Laurenti 1768 - Surinam toads (7 species) Pseudhymenochirus Chabanaud 1920 - Merlin's dwarf gray frog or Merlin's clawed frog (1 species) Xenopus Wagler 1827 - clawed frogs (29 species) [8] Subgenus Wagler 1827 - common clawed frogs; Subgenus Gray 1864 - tropical clawed frogs