Fun with Herpetology: Suriname Toad

Pipa pipa (AKA Suriname Toad) is the most unique representative of its family.  What family is that you ask?  The flat, tongueless, back-birthing frog family (Pipidae).  Some fun facts:

• The female gives birth to fully-formed froglets that developed on her back in little pockets covered in skin
• Strictly aquatic
• No tongue!
• Endemic to Suriname

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Not quite endemic to Suriname, we have 'em ugly fellows here in Brazil too ;)