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The difference between frogs and toads

Published: 2024-12-22 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/12/22, The difference between frogs and toads

Frogs are amphibians of the family Anura, adults without tails, and feed on insects and other invertebrates. Toads are also known as scabies toads, and so on. There are many bumps on the body surface and poisonous glands inside. Our country is divided into Chinese big toad and black orbital toad. Let's take a look at the difference between frog and toad.

The difference of families and genera between frogs and toads

1. Frogs: frogs are amphibians belonging to the subphylum Vertebrate, subphylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, amphibia, Anura, New Frog suborder, Frogaceae and Rana rugulosa.

2. Toads: toads are animals of the kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, amphibia, amphibia, Anura, Bufonidae, and Bufo.

The difference between the tadpoles of frogs and toads

1. Frogs: most of the tadpoles of frogs are scattered, with a lighter body color, a slightly round body, a long tail and a long mouth at the front of the head.

2. Toads: the tadpoles of toads are usually crowded in groups, with a black body, a shallow tail, an oval shape, a short tail, a mouth on the ventral front of the head, and a body smaller than a frog tadpole.

Morphological differences between frogs and toads

1. Frogs: the head of the frog is flat, slightly triangular, the snout is slightly pointed, the mouth is broad and transverse, and it is composed of the upper and lower jaws. The male frog has a light brown membrane fold as a vocal sac inside and behind the mouth angle, which bulges into a bubble when singing, the trunk is short and wide, and between the two legs at the back end, there is a small hole on the dorsal side, which is a cloacal cavity hole, four toes on the foot, five toes on the hind foot, and web.

2. Toads: toads have many bumps on the body surface, poisonous glands inside, the average body length is about 60 mm, the largest female can reach 80 mm, the head width is greater than the head length, the kiss end is round, the kiss edge is significant, the cheek is tilted to the outside, the nose spacing is slightly smaller than the eye spacing, the upper eyelid is wide and slightly larger than the eye spacing, the tympanic membrane is significant, oval, the male skin is rough, the head, upper eyelid and back are densely covered with warts, and the female is less verrucous. The retroauricular gland is large and flat.

The difference in efficacy between frogs and toads

1. Frog: frog taste sweet, cool, return to lung, spleen and bladder meridian, with the effect of diuresis and detumescence, clearing heat and detoxification, tonifying deficiency, mainly treating edema, swelling, jaundice, shrimp plague, infantile fever, dysentery, dysentery, labor fever, postpartum weakness and so on.

2. Toad: toad taste fishy, warm, poisonous, return to the heart meridian, with detoxification, pain, Kaiqiao and other effects, mainly for the treatment of eczema, back, gangrene, acne, dysphagia, distension, edema, infantile accumulation, chronic tracheitis and other diseases.

 
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