[iii] Cutaneous Organs

• Gas respiration through skin

  Cutaneous respiration
• True or False: Amniotes have the capacity to perform cutaneous respiration

  True
• Capacity for cutaneous respiration is increased by a thin surface layer
• Specializations for cutaneous respiration

  • Skin folds in lake frogs
  • Capillary projections in hairy frogs
• The snakehead can survive some periods of time without water