midwife toad

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any species of the genus Alytes, the males of which carry fertilized eggs on their backs.
    — Fossils suggest that midwife toads were once widespread on Majorca and Menorca, but disappeared from lowlands of the former and entirely from the latter island several thousand years ago and coincident with the fossil appearance of the snake Natrix maura and the large frog Rana perezi.

词形变化

midwife toads plural

词源

Refers to the behavior in which males carry fertilized eggs on their backs.
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