Meanings
nounwater frog (plural water frogs)
plural water frogs
- alternativeAlternative spelling of waterfrog.
This scenario indicates that the water frogs living on Crete diverged from the other western Palearctic water frogs a minimum of 5 million years and a maximum of 6 million years ago, and that the water frogs of Karpathos diverged from Anatolian relatives about 3 million years ago.
1994 May 13, Two New Water Frog Species from the Aegean Islands Crete and Karpathos (Amphibia, Salientia, Ranidae), number 470, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, page 6
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