Amphibia in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae


In the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, Carl Linnaeus described the Amphibia as:
Animals that are distinguished by a body cold and generally naked; stern and expressive countenance; harsh voice; mostly lurid color; filthy odor; a few are furnished with a horrid poison; all have cartilaginous bones, slow circulation, exquisite sight and hearing, large pulmonary vessels, lobate liver, oblong thick stomach, and cystic, hepatic, and pancreatic ducts: they are deficient in diaphragm, do not transpire, can live a long time without food, are tenatious of life, and have the power of reproducing parts which have been destroyed or lost; some undergo a metamorphosis; some cast their skin; some appear to live promiscuously on land or in the water, and some are torpid during the winter.

Linnaean characteristics
Linnaeus often regarded reptiles within the amphibian class because living in Sweden, he often noticed that the local reptiles would hunt and be active in the water.
In the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, Linnaeus included several species of fishes into the amphibian class. It was not until later on that he would merge them into the Fish class and give them their own new order "Chondropterygious", defining them as species with cartilaginous gills.
Linnaeus divided the amphibians based upon the limb structures and the way they breathed.

Reptiles

; Testudo
; Draco
was named Lacerta principalis in 1758.
was named Lacerta agilis in 1758.
was named Lacerta vulgaris, Lacerta palustris and Lacerta aquatica in 1758.
, was named Lacerta chameleon in 1758.
;
Lacerta
was named Rana temporaria in 1758.
;
Rana
; Crotalus
; Boa
was named Coluber ammodytes in 1758.
was named Coluber berus in 1758.
was named Coluber aspis in 1758.
was named Coluber aulicus in 1758.
was named Coluber naja in 1758.
was named Coluber ahaetulla in 1758.
;
Coluber
in 1758.
; Anguis
in 1758.
;
Amphisbaena
; Caecilia
; Petromyzon
; Raja
was named Squalus acanthias in 1758.
; Squalus
; Chimaera
; Lophius
; Acipenser