The name "tadpole" is from Middle English taddepol, made up of the elements tadde, "toad", and pol, "head" (modern English "poll").
Tadpole's Promise is a children's picture book written by Jeanne Willis and illustrated by Tony Ross, published in 2003.
tadpole | Tadpole (band) | Tadpole |
Hook and Jon went to Hamilton Boys' High School together, where Jon was head boy, while Stowers in the year above, was the lead singer in the band The Grinners (née Lyon), while Shannon Brown is well known on the New Zealand music circuit for his roles in bands such as Tadpole.
When they hatch, the female carries the tadpoles singly to temporary water bodies such as hollows in trees, leaf axils of species such as Dieffenbachia and to bromeliads, at heights of a metre or two off the ground.
Adelitas Way entered the studio in September 2010 with writer/producer Dave Bassett (Shinedown, VersaEmerge) and Tadpole (Disturbed, Finger Eleven) in Malibu, California to record the band's follow up to their self-titled debut on Virgin Records.
The main threats it faces are the degradation of suitable terrestrial habitat, pollution and loss of suitable breeding pools, and the introduction of the invasive crayfish Procambarus clarkii and non-native fishes which prey on the tadpoles.
The subspecies Physella parkeri latchfordi, also known as the "Gatineau tadpole snail", lives in Quebec, Canada.
Rin Rin the tadpole (Spanish: Rin Rin Renacuajo), also known as the tripping tadpole (El renacuajo paseador) (1884) is a stock character created by Colombian poet Rafael Pombo.
Early stage larvae of Starksia are more tadpole-shaped than other labrisomids and lack some of the melanophores (dark spots) typical of the family.
The tadpole cod is distinct from the tadpole fish, Raniceps raninus.