RE: https://mastodon.online/@globalmuseum/115877805450946113

#Surinametoads of the genus #Pipa (#Pipidae, Anura) are #frogs, which remain permanently #aquatic, having a specialized #reproductionmode: during mating, the male pushes the fertilized eggs with his legs on the female's back, where the tadpoles develop #inside the #mother's #skin. There, the eggs are protected by skin growth forming a keratinized "cover." The #larvalstage is fully completed in this #protectedposition, that fully formed froglets emerge from the mother's skin.
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