Amphibians

 are, , four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class Amphibia. All extant amphibians belong to the monophyletic subclass, with three living orders: Anura (frogs and toads), Urodela , and Gymnophiona.

Quotes

 * Toward misted and ebullient seas And cooling shores, toward lost Amphibia’s emperies.
 * Richard Wilbur, "The Death of a Toad", in Poetry (February 1948)


 * Salamander in his dripping cave Satanic ebon-amber; ... Eft of cumbrous gait, And toads who love rank grasses near a grave.
 * John Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley, "Circe", Poems Dramatic and Lyrical (1893), p. 37