Phone: 305-576-6611 | Fax: View Map: Primary Practice Address: 3601 FEDERAL HIGHWAY MIAMI, FL 33137 United States Phone: 305-576-6611 | Fax: View Map: Taxonomy
The largest living amphibian is the 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus), but this is dwarfed by the extinct 9 m (30 ft) Prionosuchus from the middle Permian of Brazil. The study of amphibians is called batrachology, while the study of both reptiles and amphibians is called herpetology.
1 Amphibians spend at least part of their lives in water and on land. 2  Amphibians do not have scales and their skin is permeable (molecules and gases can pass through). 3  Amphibians have gills for at least part of their lives. 4  Some species have gills only as larvae, while others can have gills throughout their lives.