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robertprice May 23rd, 2013 12:45 PM

Tadpole Identification Table
 
At the Spring Auction there was some uncertainty about the species of a tadpole. Fortunately there is a standard Tadpole Identification Table. They are classified by the number of upper and lower tooth rows. Just take the tadpole, put its mouth against a microscope slide, get your magnifying glass and count tooth rows, and voila! you can tell the species. (I had to memorize them all in grad school: we weren't allowed to use the table.)

stevem May 23rd, 2013 04:31 PM

tadpole
 
tryed it would not sit still
HAHA

robertprice May 24th, 2013 01:06 PM

It works on nearly all pollywogs, but they do wiggle, so sometimes you have to put them on their backs under a low power stereo or binocular microscope with a slide on their mouthparts to open them a little. Then you can see the upper and lower tooth rows. There may be 2 top and 3 bottom, or any cobination of 0-4 on top and on the bottom. They also have papillae on the sides of their mouth. We used to have a chart with all the faces of USA tadpoles. It's as bad as counting fin rays on fish.


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