tadpole stage
Frog's aquatic youth
The tadpole stage is the larval phase of a frog or toad's development, between hatching from the egg and metamorphosing into the adult form.
During this stage, the animal is aquatic, breathes through gills, and has a tail but no legs.
The term extends to any early developmental phase: The project is still in its tadpole stage.
- frogTailless leaping amphibian
- larvaImmature feeding stage
- egg massBundled reproductive cells
- metamorphosisProfound biological restructuring
- gillsAquatic respiratory organs
tail · pond · pond water · spawn · eggs · wiggling · swimming · bullfrog · polliwog · webbed · legs · transformation · aquatic · hatching · jelly · gill slits · algae · back legs
tadpole stageadult frog
Fully developed amphibian
adult stage · adult form · froglet · imago
tadpole stageadult form
Fully developed organism
final form · imago · terminal stage · senescence · old age
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