• drolex@sopuli.xyz
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    10 days ago

    At first I thought I didn’t agree as I believed that frogs were members of some families of the order Anura (especially, but not only Ranidae) and toads were exclusively in the family Bufonidae. Mutually exclusive groups of families for frogs vs. toads.

    But apparently I was wrong (and it might be different in different languages…) since I understand that frogs correspond to all Anura (not the case in French for example)

    But! There are also some frogs in the Bufonidae??? e.g. Panamanian Golden Frog

    Get your shit together, taxonomists

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      10 days ago

      Don’t forget toads (such as the spade foot toad) that are not part of Bufonidae.

      Toad is just a term people use for frogs that are toad-y, a social construct, not a real thing.

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        10 days ago

        A social construct? I might be a toad, as described by Auguste Comte in Aspects of toad positivism

        Anyway, thanks for the useful addendum.