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Class Amphibia Gray, 1825. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classi­fication and survey of taxonomic richness

Department of Vertebrate Zoology & Anthropology, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, California 94118 USA
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94708-3160 USA
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