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only about two inches and a half long (measured from 

 snout to vent) when full grown, but its tadpole often 



exceeds four inches in length, and in rare cases attains 

 the gigantic size of seven inches, so that it actually shrinks 

 in size when it ceases to be a tadpole, and takes on the 

 adult form. Many years ago I found some of these huge 



