Parental Care among the Amphibia - ScienceDirect.

PARENTAL CARE IN THE MEMBERS OF CLASS AMPHIBIA. Amphibian include anurans, urodelans and apodans.In all these groups of amphibians we come across with a great deal of parental care. Amphibians show several mechanisms to protect their eggs and developing young ones because of the they lay few eggs.

Amphibians form a class of vertebrates. Vertebrates are animals that have backbones their surround their nerve cords. The nerve cord is found along the back of the animal. The bodies of most vertebrates have a head and a trunk. Many vertebrates have two pairs of limbs attached to the trunk. Amp.

PARENTAL CARE IN AMPHIBIA Parental care means care of the eggs or juveniles till they reach the reproductive age. Parental care evolved to reduce the energy expenditure on reproduction, as in the absence of it animals must produce millions of eggs so that few could survive to replace the parents to ensure existence of the species. Lower animals produce excessively large number of eggs and do.