Species Profile
Alytes
Midwife toad
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassAmphibia
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Alytes lives in moist terrestrial habitats.
Nocturnal and insectivorous.
Unique reproductive behaviour.
Size & Structure
01
Small stout body
02
Smooth skin
03
Short limbs
04
Greyish colour
Alytes — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Coelomate
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Deuterostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- External
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Well developed
- Excretory organ
- Kidneys
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Closed circulation, incomplete double
- Development type
- Indirect
- Respiratory type
- Pulmonary and cutaneous
- Mode of excretion
- Ureotelism (adult)
- Circulation system
- Closed
- Skeleton structure
- Endoskeleton
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Insect predator
Moist habitat indicator
Amphibian diversity role
Economic Importance
Reproductive biology studies
Educational value
Biodiversity conservation