Talk:Breviceps
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Tadpoles
[edit]From what I understand, all genus of the family Brevicipitidae develop from egg to juvenile frog and skip the tadpole stage. This article says the tadpoles stir up a froth. Flight Risk (talk) 18:49, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
- Hi Flight Risk: according to the source (#4 - PhD thesis Leslie Minter), there is a tadpole stage, and the tadpoles do indeed beat the egg mass into a froth, presumably as a medium for further metamorphosis. The caveat here is that this is reported of only one species (apparently the only one whose hatching physiology had been studied in detail at that time), albeit by multiple authors. However, that would already show that not all Brevicepitidae skip the tadpole stage. - Do you have a source on hand that contradicts this? The article could certainly use some expansion and updated sources... -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 19:21, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
- The Wikipedia article for the family Brevicipitidae states "At least the frogs in Breviceps and Probreviceps genera breed by direct development, in which small froglets emerge from eggs without intervening aquatic tadpole phase". So I'm wrong that all genus of Brevicipitidae lack the tadpole stage, but either the Brevicipitidae article or this Breviceps article needs clarification. Flight Risk (talk) 18:52, 11 October 2016 (UTC)