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Like the Tailed Salamanders (Fig. 193), each common 

 Frog emerges from the egg in a larval form, totally different 

 from that of the full-grown Frog (Fig. 194). The short 



Fig. 193. — Larva of Spotted Land-Newt (Salamandra maculata), from 

 the ventral side. La the centre a yelk-sac yet protrudes from the intestine. 

 The external gills ai'e prettily branched and tree-like. The two pairs of 

 limbs are yet very small. 



Pig. 194. — Larva of the Common Grass-Frog (Rana temporaria), a so- 

 called tadpole : m, mouth ; n, a pair of suction cups used in clinging to stones ; 

 d, skin-fold, which gives rise to the gill-roof ; behind are the gill-openings, 

 from which the gill branches protrude j s, tail-muscles ; /, skin-fold of the 

 tail, forming a float. 



trunk is produced into a long tail, which in form and struc- 

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