Influence of Water Desiccation and Predator on Metamorphic Traits in the Indian Common Toad, Bufo Melanostictus

Mallappa N Kullolli

Abstract: - ANURAN amphibians have a complex life history strategy with an aquatic and a terrestrial stage (Wilbur 1980). The larval stage is critical as the larvae have to complete development and attain a threshold size before metamorphosis before emergence on la

Keywords: Metamorphosis, Gosner stage, depletion, desiccation, cues, climax stage