A nuptial pad (also known as thumb pad, or nuptial excrescence) is a secondary sex characteristic present on some mature male frogs and salamanders. Triggered...

distinguishable from females as they are smaller and have hard swellings, known as nuptial pads, on the first digits of the forelegs, used for gripping females during...

Gallery Bluehead chub Common bream Cactus roach Nuptial pad - a similar ornament of frogs "nuptial tubercle". Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias:...

larger than males. During the breeding season, the male will have a black nuptial pad on his hand or wrist that helps him hold onto the female during amplexus...

muscles being larger in males, male frogs also typically have keratin pads or nuptial pads, which are located on their thumbs and contribute to the success...

and limpet-shaped conical scutes. In fish, nuptial tubercles are formed on males for breeding. Nuptial pads on frogs also comprise keratinised tubercles...

are size difference and males possessing dark pigmented throats and nuptial pads on the forelimbs. All horned frogs, species of the genus Ceratophrys...

indistinct, and a vocal sac is not present. Males have black, spiny nuptial pads on their thumbs and "accessory spines" on their chests. These spines...

grams (0.99–2.01 oz). Males and females can be told apart by the males' nuptial pads on their first and second fingers. Besides having more noticeable tubercles...

yellow/orange. They have acute hearing, but no vocal sac, and also lack nuptial pads. The goliath frog is mainly found near waterfalls in Equatorial Guinea...

unwebbed, while their feet are essentially fully webbed. Males have nuptial pads (swellings present on the forearms of certain male amphibians used to...

has hypertrophied forelimbs and bony spines, but it does not have the nuptial pad on its front feet seen in many other adult male frogs. This frog's head...

and the toes are webbed. In mating season, the males develop black nuptial pads that enable them to cling to the females' backs during amplexus. R. moorei...

females, and its relatively flat parotoid gland, c. 17%. Males have black nuptial pads. There is no vocal sac. The Miyako toad is native to Miyako-jima and...

of a duck or goose being strangled). The males develop black, rough nuptial pads on their thumbs during the breeding season, which occurs during spring...

palm, two metacarpal tubercles are present, webbing is absent as is the nuptial pad, and subcutaneous glands are present on the base of the 1st finger. Hind...

belly is white. The toes are webbed. Males have a paired vocal sac and nuptial pads on the first finger. Mating season occurs soon after hibernation. Maturation...

first finger of the hand is longer than the second one, males having nuptial pads on the first two fingers. On the hind limbs, the toes are short and partially...

dimorphism is noted, but the male in breeding season bears a dark, swollen nuptial pad on each thumb. The eye and tympanum are prominent; the diameter of the...

laevis with completely webbed toes and superior nostrils). Males have a nuptial pad in their hands and paired subgular vocal sacs; with mean snout–vent length...

with the first finger's disc slightly smaller. The frog has smooth nuptial pads on the first finger's base. The webbing between the first and second...

are yellow. The male red-spotted toad has a dusky throat and develops nuptial pads during the breeding season. It may hybridize with the western toad (Anaxyrus...

process of the vomer carries two to four teeth. The males have a type-I nuptial pad; the prepollex is concealed. The toes and most fingers of C. pulverata...

humeral spines are present in males but not in females.[citation needed] Nuptial pad William E. Duellman; Linda Trueb (1994). Biology of Amphibians. JHU Press...

cross-bands. Ventrum whitish. Throat and limbs light grey. Male has a nuptial pad. The frog is point endemic, where specimen only found from Kudawa araa...

There are vomerine teeth in the frog's jaw. The adult male frog has a nuptial pad on each front foot. Scientists say this frog is not in danger of dying...

hand webbing, as well as the size, shape, and colouration of the male's nuptial pad. It has a distinctive call, described as a "tonk... – tonk... – tonk...

parts are dull yellow with darker patterning. Males have a large black nuptial pad on the thumb and dense spines in the throat. The male advertisement call...

skin composed of small, flat, pliable (not keratinized) warts, and lack nuptial pads in adult males. They differ in that Dischidodactylus possesses a dentigerous...

of the eye diameter, tongue without papilla but with a lingual pit, nuptial pad rudimentary to absent, a bony tubercle on humerus at the end of deltoid...