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.)
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Dr. Robert Price
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