All toads are frogs, but not all frogs are toads ! (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months 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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

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