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Positive pressure

Amphibians use this process to respire, whereby they use positive pressure to inflate their lungs.


68th Armor Regiment

#773d Tank Battalion reorganized and redesignated 27 October 1943 as the 773d Amphibian Tank Battalion
Reorganized and redesignated 10 January 1944 as the 773d Amphibian Tractor Battalion
Inactivated 15 April 1946 in Japan
Redesignated 24 December 1946 as the 56th Amphibian Tractor Battalion
Redesignated 18 April 1949 as the 56th Amphibious Tank and Tractor Battalion
Activated 10 May 1949 at Fort Worden, Washington
Inactivated 15 December 1954 at Fort Worden, Washington

Ainslie Henderson

Henderson released his debut album, Growing Flowers By Candlelight, on 15 July 2006, on his own independent label, Amphibian Husbandry.

Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust

Amphibian and Reptile Conservation is a British wildlife charity formed in July 2009 by the Herpetological Conservation Trust.

Amphibians of Western Australia

Currently, the only non-native amphibian naturalised in Western Australia (WA) is Limnodynastes tasmaniensis (Spotted Grass Frog), which was introduced to Kununurra in the 1970s, apparently during the relocation of several hundred transportable homes from Adelaide.

Arthur James Williams

Art Williams arrived in British Guiana in August 1934 piloting an Ireland amphibian biplane, NC183M, powered by a Pratt & Whitney "Wasp", 9-cylinder 450 HP radial engine, landing on the Demerara River.

Avimimus

The early mammals that were present in this region during the time of Avimimus were the placental mammals Asioryctes nemegetensis and Barunlestes butleri, the amphibian Gobiates khermeentsavi, the multituberculate mammals Catopsbaatar catopsaloides, Chulsanbaatar vulgaris and Nemegtbaatar gobiensis, and the marsupial mammal Asiatherium reshetovi and Deltatheridium pretrituberculare.

Bluie West Seven

Amphibian aircraft slips were available at Kungnat Bay and Grondal, and several other protected places were usable for seaplanes; however, the nearest air base was at BW-1 (Narsarsuaq) about 100 miles east-south-east.

Brice Goldsborough

Washington Post; December 26, 1927; New York, December 25, 1927 (Associated Press) Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson, who has been missing since she took off Friday with three companions for Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, was preparing to undertake her fourth attempt within three months to fly the Atlantic in her Sikorsky amphibian plane, the Dawn.

Buettneria

Koskinonodon, an extinct genus of large temnospondyl amphibian

C. leucocephala

Caecilia leucocephala, an amphibian species found in Colombia, Ecuador and Panama

Conchoraptor

The early mammals that were present in this region during the time of Conchoraptor were the placental mammals Asioryctes nemegetensis and Barunlestes butleri, the amphibian Gobiates khermeentsavi, the multituberculate mammals Catopsbaatar catopsaloides, Chulsanbaatar vulgaris and Nemegtbaatar gobiensis, and the marsupial mammal Asiatherium reshetovi and Deltatheridium pretrituberculare.

Convex-tailed horned toad

The convex-tailed horned toad (Xenophrys caudoprocta) is a species of amphibian in the Megophryidae family, endemic to China, and is only known from the type locality, Tianping Mountain, Sangzhi County, in Hunan.

Eastman E-2 Sea Rover

Towle was in the process of starting his own company, the Towle Marine Aircraft Engineering to produce his twin-engine amphibian design, the Towle WC.

Elbhöhen-Wendland Nature Park

The lower Middle Elbe basin with its rich water meadow is also of outstanding important for amphibians such as the European fire-bellied toad, the European tree frog and the moor frog.

Evolution: The Game of Intelligent Life

At the gain of the game, each player starts with one population of a species of prehistoric amphibian—e.g. Ichthyostega, Tulerpeton, and Acanthostega.

Glandular horned toad

Glandular horned toad or Jingdong spadefoot toad (Xenophrys glandulosa) is a species of amphibian in the Megophryidae family found in Yunnan in China, in Nagaland in northeastern India, and in northern Kachin State, Myanmar.

Gretchen Kramp

In 2000, she produced a mural for the entrance of the National Amphibian Conservation Center at the Detroit Zoo.

J. T. Rutherford

As an assault amphibian vehicle crewman, he landed in the first waves on D-Day at Tarawa, Saipan, where he was wounded, and Tinian.

Jingdong horned toad

The Jingdong horned toad or Jingdong spadefoot toad (Xenophrys jingdongensis) is a species of amphibian in the Megophryidae family found in Yunnan and Guanxi in China.

John Alexander Moore

John Alexander Moore (born on June 27, 1915 in Charles Town, West Virginia; died May 26, 2002 in Riverside, California) was a noted American biologist in the field of amphibian studies.

Maxilla

In bony fish, amphibians, and reptiles, both maxilla and premaxilla are relatively plate-like bones, forming only the sides of the upper jaw, and part of the face, with the premaxilla also forming the lower boundary of the nostrils.

Okanagan Lake Provincial Park

There are also amphibian species here, such as the Western toad and Western painted turtle.

Operation Bretagne

Four Mobile Groups (Groupes Mobiles, GM) and General de Berchoux's two Amphibian Sub-Groups hunted and engaged the 9th Regiment (Division 304) and the 48th Regiment (Division 320) who were threatening the bishopric of Bui Chu.

Oreolalax liangbeiensis

Oreolalax liangbeiensis (Liangbei toothed toad) is a species of amphibian in the Megophryidae family endemic to China: it is only known from the vicinity of its type locality, Puxiong in the Yuexi County, Sichuan.

P. carvalhoi

Pristimantis carvalhoi, B. Lutz in B. Lutz & Kloss, 1952, an amphibian species in the genus Pristimantis found in Brazil

Phyllomedusa ayeaye

While currently no specific conservation measures target this colourful amphibian, its occurrence in protected areas, such as the Parque Nacional da Serra da Canastra in the state of Minas Gerais and Parque Estadual das Furnas do Bom Jesus in the state of São Paulo, may provide it with some level of protection.

Savannah River Ecology Laboratory

2000: SREL is given a Guinness World Records plaque for having the longest, daily-monitored wetland study in the world for its reptile and amphibian research at Rainbow Bay.

Shuicheng County

Shuicheng County is home to two amphibian species that are not known from anywhere else: the horned toad Xenophrys shuichengensis and Shuicheng salamander (Pseudohynobius shuichengensis).

Srebarna Nature Reserve

39 mammal, 21 reptile and amphibian and 10 fish species inhabit the reserve, which is most famous for the 179 bird species that nest on its territory, some of which include the Dalmatian Pelican, the Mute Swan, the Greylag Goose, the Marsh Harrier, the Bluethroat, herons and cormorants.

Taphrognathus

In 1947 the name Taphrognathus was also used to describe a prehistoric amphibian from the Middle Triassic of Arizona, but the amphibian was renamed Hadrokkosaurus in 1957 after the synonymy was realized.

Tritrichomonas

Tritrichomonas augusta have been observed in the amphibian Rough-skinned Newt, Taricha granulosa, in certain Northern California coastal counties in the USA.

Vostok watches

A popular myth claims that after the Desert Storm operation in 1992, the Pentagon awarded soldiers from the allied forces with a special edition Vostok Amphibian military watch called Desert Shield.

Wyoming toad

The Wyoming toad or Baxter's toad (Bufo baxteri syn. Anaxyrus baxteri) is an extremely rare amphibian that exists only in captivity and within Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Wyoming in the United States.


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