NOUN
- mostly terrestrial salamanders that breathe through their thin moist skin; lay eggs in moist places on land; rarely enter water
How To Use plethodont In A Sentence
- Egg size, the zoological counterpart of seed size, has not been nearly as well studied, but is known to correlate positively with genome size in cladoceran crustaceans and plethodontid salamanders.
- All plethodontids are also lungless (lunglessness and reduced lungs are independently derived in the few other salamander species showing this character).
- Oxygen uptake can also occur through the skin and the mouth membranes (as in the plethodontids, the lung-less salamanders).
- Some researchers have suggested a relationship with the lungless plethodontids instead.
- Morphological homoplasy, life history evolution, and historical biogeography of plethodontid salamanders inferred from complete mitochondrial genomes. Archive 2006-03-01
- All adult plethodontids have four limbs, with four digits on the forelimbs.
