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tubercles

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One of these, the green burrowing frog (Scaphiophryne marmorata), has a flattened head with a short snout and well-developed metatarsal tubercles on its hind feet to help with excavation. Source: Internet

Other seed appendages include the raphe (a ridge), wings, caruncles (a soft spongy outgrowth from the outer integument in the vicinity of the micropyle), spines, or tubercles. Source: Internet

The cheek teeth were short-crowned ( brachyodont ), with the tubercles more-or-less completely fused into transverse ridges, or cross-crests ( lophodont type), and the total number of teeth was in one case the typical 44, but in another was fewer. Source: Internet

The feet have adaptations for the way of life, with webbing between the toes for swimming, broad adhesive toe pads for climbing, and keratinised tubercles on the hind feet for digging (frogs usually dig backwards into the soil). Source: Internet

The surface of the stem may be smooth (as in some species of Opuntia) or covered with protuberances of various kinds, which are usually called tubercles. Source: Internet

The two species are distinguished primarily by large flexor tubercles on the foot claws in A. lithographica (the claws of A. siemensii specimens being relatively simple and straight). Source: Internet

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