List of amphibians of India
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This is an index to the amphibians found in India. The amphibians of India show a high level of endemism.[1] This list is based largely on Frost (2006)[2] and includes common names from older books and journals.[3]
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[edit] Order Anura
[edit] Family Bufonidae
- Ornate Torrent Toad Ansonia ornata Günther, 1876
- Silent Valley Torrent Toad Ansonia rubigina Pillai and Pattabiraman, 1981
- Bufo beddomii Günther, 1876
- Bufo brevirostris Rao, 1937
- Bufo burmanus Andersson, 1939
- Duttaphrynus cyphosus = Bufo cyphosus Ye, 1977
- Himalayan Toad Duttaphrynus himalayanus (Günther, 1864) =Bufo himalayanus Günther, 1864
- Bufo hololius Günther, 1876
- Bufo koynayensis Soman, 1963
- Ladakh Toad Pseudepidalea latastii Boulenger, 1882 = Bufo latastii
- Common Indian Toad Duttaphrynus melanostictus (Schneider, 1799) =Bufo melanostictus Schneider, 1799
Common Indian Toad, Bufo melanostictus - Duttaphrynus microtympanum (Boulenger, 1882) = Bufo microtympanum Boulenger, 1882
- Ingerophrynus macrotis (Boulenger, 1887)
- Bufo parietalis Boulenger, 1882
- Ferguson's Toad Bufo scaber Schneider, 1799
- Bufo silentvalleyensis Pillai, 1981
- Bufo stomaticus Lütken, 1864
- Green Toad Bufo viridis
- Bufo stuarti Smith, 1929
- Bufoides meghalayanus (Yazdani and Chanda, 1971)
- Pedostibes kempi (Boulenger, 1919)
- Pedostibes tuberculosus Günther, 1876
[edit] Family Ceratobatrachidae
[edit] Family Dicroglossidae
[edit] Dicroglossinae
- Common skittering frog Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis (Schneider, 1799)
- Euphlyctis ghoshi (Chanda, 1991)
- Indian Five-fingered Frog Euphlyctis hexadactylus (Lesson, 1834)
- Fejervarya andamanensis (Stoliczka, 1870) = Limnonectes andamanensis (Stoliczka, 1870)
- Fejervarya assimilis (Blyth, 1852)
- Fejervarya brama (Lesson, 1834)
- Fejervarya brevipalmata (Peters, 1871)
- Fejervarya cancrivora (Gravenhorst, 1829)
- Fejervarya greenii (Boulenger, 1905)
- Fejervarya keralensis (Dubois, 1981)
- Alpine cricket frog Fejervarya limnocharis (Gravenhorst, 1829)
- Fejervarya murthii (Pillai, 1979)
- Fejervarya mysorensis (Rao, 1922)
- Fejervarya nicobariensis (Stoliczka, 1870)
- Fejervarya nepalensis Iskandar, 1998
- Fejervarya nilagirica (Jerdon, 1854)
- Fejervarya orissaensis (Dutta, 1997)
- Fejervarya parambikulamana (Rao, 1937)
- Fejervarya rufescens (Jerdon, 1854)
- Fejervarya sauriceps (Rao, 1937)
- Southern cricket frog Fejervarya syhadrensis (Annandale, 1919)
- Fejervarya teraiensis (Dubois, 1984)
- Jerdon's Bullfrog Hoplobatrachus crassus (Jerdon, 1854)
- Indian Bullfrog Hoplobatrachus tigerinus (Daudin, 1802)
- Limnonectes doriae (Boulenger, 1887)
- Limnonectes hascheanus (Stoliczka, 1870)
- Limnonectes khasianus (Anderson, 1871)
- Limnonectes kuhlii (Tschudi, 1838)
- Limnonectes laticeps (Boulenger, 1882)
- Limnonectes limborgi (Sclater, 1892)
- Limnonectes mawlyndipi (Chanda, 1990)
- Limnonectes mawphlangensis (Pillai and Chanda, 1977)
- Limnonectes shompenorum Das, 1996
- Minervarya sahyadris Dubois, Ohler, and Biju, 2001
- Nanorana annandalii = Paa annandalii (Boulenger, 1920)
- Nanorana arnoldi = Paa arnoldi (Dubois, 1975)
- Nanorana barmoachensis = Paa barmoachensis(Khan and Tasnim, 1989)
- Nanorana blanfordii = Paa blanfordii (Boulenger, 1882)
- Nanorana conaensis = Paa conaensis (Fei and Huang In Huang and Fei, 1981)
- Nanorana ercepeae = Paa ercepeae (Dubois, 1974)
- Hazara torrent frog Nanorana hazarensis = Paa hazarensis (Dubois and Khan, 1979)
- Nanorana liebigii = Paa liebigii (Günther, 1860)
- Nanorana minica = Paa minica (Dubois, 1975)
- Nanorana mokokchungensis = Paa mokokchungensis (Das and Chanda, 2000)
- Nanorana polunini = Paa polunini (Smith, 1951)
- Nanorana pleskei Günther, 1896
- Karez frog Nanorana sternosignata = Paa sternosignata (Murray, 1885)
- Murree Hills frog Nanorana vicina = Paa vicina (Stoliczka, 1872)
- Ombrana sikimensis = Chaparana sikimensis (Jerdon, 1870)
- Burrowing frog Sphaerotheca breviceps (Schneider, 1799)
- Sphaerotheca dobsoni (Boulenger, 1882)
- Sphaerotheca leucorhynchus (Rao, 1937)
- Marbled Sand Frog Sphaerotheca rolandae (Dubois, 1983)
[edit] Occidozyginae
- Occidozyga borealis (Annandale, 1912)
- Occidozyga lima (Gravenhorst, 1829)
- Occidozyga sumatrana (Peters, 1877)
[edit] Family Hylidae
- Hyla annectans (Jerdon, 1870)
[edit] Family Megophryidae
- Hasselt's Toad Leptobrachium hasseltii Tschudi, 1838
- Leptobrachium smithi Matsui, Nabhitabhata, and Panha, 1999
- Scutiger boulengeri (Bedriaga, 1898)
- Scutiger gongshanensis Yang and Su In Yang, Su, and Li, 1979
- Nyingchi Alpine Toad Scutiger nyingchiensis Fei, 1977
- Sikkim Alpine Toad Scutiger sikimmensis (Blyth, 1855)
- Xenophrys boettgeri (Boulenger, 1899)
- Xenophrys kempii (Annandale, 1912)
- Xenophrys major (Boulenger, 1908)
- Xenophrys parva (Boulenger, 1893)
- Xenophrys robusta (Boulenger, 1908)
- Xenophrys wuliangshanensis
[edit] Family Micrixalidae
- Micrixalus elegans (Rao, 1937)
- Micrixalus fuscus (Boulenger, 1882)
- Micrixalus gadgili Pillai and Pattabiraman, 1990
- Micrixalus kottigeharensis (Rao, 1937)
- Micrixalus narainensis (Rao, 1937)
- Micrixalus nudis Pillai, 1978
- Micrixalus phyllophilus (Jerdon, 1854)
- Micrixalus saxicola (Jerdon, 1854)
- Micrixalus silvaticus (Boulenger, 1882)
- Micrixalus swamianus (Rao, 1937)
- Micrixalus thampii Pillai, 1981
[edit] Family Microhylidae
- Kalophrynus interlineatus Blyth, 1855 = Kalophrynus orangensis Dutta, Ahmed, and Das, 2000
- Micryletta inornata (Boulenger, 1890)
- Ramanella anamalaiensis Rao, 1937
- Ramanella minor Rao, 1937
- Ramanella montana (Jerdon, 1854)
- Ramanella mormorata Rao, 1937
- Ramanella triangularis (Günther, 1876)
- White-bellied pug-snout frog Ramanella variegata (Stoliczka, 1872)
- Uperodon globulosus (Günther, 1864)
- Marbled balloon frog Uperodon systoma (Schneider, 1799)
- Melanobatrachus indicus Beddome, 1878
- Kaloula baleata (Müller In Oort and Müller, 1833)
- Painted Frog Kaloula pulchra Gray, 1831
Asian Painted Frog, Kaloula pulchra - Kaloula assamensis Das, Sengupta, Ahmed, and Dutta, 2005
- Sri Lankan Bullfrog Kaloula taprobanica Parker, 1934
- Microhyla berdmorei (Blyth, 1856)
- Microhyla chakrapanii Pillai, 1977
- Microhyla heymonsi Vogt, 1911
- Ornate Narrow-Mouthed Toad Microhyla ornata (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)
- Microhyla pulchra (Hallowell, 1861)
- Microhyla rubra (Jerdon, 1854)
- Microhyla sholigari Dutta and Ray, 2000
[edit] Family Nyctibatrachidae
- Nyctibatrachus aliciae Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984
- Nyctibatrachus beddomii (Boulenger, 1882)
- Nyctibatrachus deccanensis Dubois, 1984
- Nyctibatrachus humayuni Bhaduri and Kripalani, 1955
- Nyctibatrachus hussaini Krishnamurthy, Reddy, and Gururaja, 2001
- Nyctibatrachus kempholeyensis (Rao, 1937)
- Nyctibatrachus major Boulenger, 1882
- Nyctibatrachus minor Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984
- Nyctibatrachus petraeus Das and Kunte, 2005
- Nyctibatrachus sanctipalustris Rao, 1920
- Nyctibatrachus sylvaticus Rao, 1937
- Nyctibatrachus vasanthi Ravichandran, 1997
- Nyctibatrachus minimus Biju et al., 2007.[4]
- Nyctibatrachus sholai Radhakrishnan, Dinesh & Ravichandran, 2007.[5]
[edit] Family Petropedetidae
- Indirana beddomii (Günther, 1876)
- Indirana brachytarsus (Günther, 1876)
- Indirana diplosticta (Günther, 1876)
- Indirana gundia (Dubois, 1986)
- Indirana leithii (Boulenger, 1888)
- Indirana leptodactyla (Boulenger, 1882)
- Indirana longicrus (Rao, 1937)
- Indirana phrynoderma (Boulenger, 1882)
- Indirana semipalmata (Boulenger, 1882)
- Indirana tenuilingua Rao, 1937
[edit] Family Ranidae
- Amolops chakrataensis Ray, 1992
- Amolops formosus (Günther, 1876)
- Amolops gerbillus (Annandale, 1912)
- Amolops himalayanus (Boulenger, 1888)
- Amolops jaunsari Ray, 1992
- Amolops marmoratus (Blyth, 1855)
- Amolops monticola (Anderson, 1871)
- Amolops viridimaculatus (Jiang, 1983)
- Bicolored Frog Clinotarsus curtipes (Jerdon, 1854) = Rana curtipes Jerdon, 1854
- Huia chloronota (Günther, 1876) = Rana chloronota (Günther, 1876)
- Humerana humeralis (Boulenger, 1887) = Rana humeralis Boulenger, 1887
- Fungoid Frog Hydrophylax malabaricus (Tschudi, 1838) = Rana malabarica Tschudi, 1838
Fungoid Frog, Rana malabarica - Hydrophylax raniceps (Peters, 1871)
- Pterorana khare Kiyasetuo and Khare, 1986
- Hylarana tytleri = Rana tytleri (Theobald, 1868)
- Nasirana alticola (Boulenger, 1882) = Rana alticola Boulenger, 1882
- Golden frog Sylvirana aurantiaca = Rana aurantiaca Boulenger, 1904
- Sylvirana chitwanensis = Rana chitwanensis Das, 1998
- Sylvirana danieli = Rana danieli Pillai and Chanda, 1977
- Boulenger's Garo Hill Frog Sylvirana garoensis (Boulenger, 1920 ) = Rana garoensis Boulenger, 1920
- Sylvirana leptoglossa = Rana leptoglossa (Cope, 1868)
- Sylvirana nigrovittata = Rana nigrovittata (Blyth, 1856)
- Bronzed Frog Sylvirana temporalis = Rana temporalis (Günther, 1864)
[edit] Family Rhacophoridae
- Chiromantis cherrapunjiae = Chirixalus cherrapunjiae (Roonwal and Kripalani, 1966)
- Chiromantis doriae = Chirixalus doriae Boulenger, 1893
- Chiromantis dudhwaensis = Chirixalus dudhwaensis Ray, 1992
- Chiromantis shyamrupus = Chirixalus shyamrupus (Chanda and Ghosh, 1989)
- Chiromantis simus = Chirixalus simus Annandale, 1915
- Chiromantis vittatus = Chirixalus vittatus (Boulenger, 1887)
- Nyctixalus moloch (Annandale, 1912)
- Kurixalus verrucosus = Rhacophorus verrucosus Boulenger, 1893
- Aquixalus bisacculus = Rhacophorus bisacculus Taylor, 1962
- Aquixalus naso = Polypedates naso (Annandale, 1912)
- Philautus andersoni (Ahl, 1927)
- Philautus anili Biju and Bossuyt, 2006
- Philatus luteolus Kuramoto and Joshy, 2003
- Philatus tuberohumerus Kuramoto and Joshy, 2003
- Philautus annandalii (Boulenger, 1906)
- Philautus beddomii (Günther, 1876)
- Philautus bobingeri Biju and Bossuyt, 2005
- Philautus bombayensis (Annandale, 1919)
- Philautus chalazodes (Günther, 1876)
- Philautus charius Rao, 1937
- Philautus dubius (Boulenger, 1882)
- Round-snout pygmy frog Philautus femoralis (Günther, 1864)
- Philautus flaviventris (Boulenger, 1882)
- Philautus garo (Boulenger, 1919)
- Philautus glandulosus (Jerdon, 1854)
- Philautus graminirupes Biju & Bossuyt, 2005
- Philautus griet Bossuyt, 2002
- Philautus jerdonii (Günther, 1876)
- Philautus kempiae (Boulenger, 1919)
- Philautus luteolus
- Philautus microdiscus (Annandale, 1912)
- Philautus namdaphaensis Sarkar and Sanyal, 1985
- Sharp-snout pygmy tree frog Philautus nasutus
- Philautus neelanethrus Gururaja et al.', 2007[6]
- Philautus nerostagona
- Philautus ochlandrae Gururaja et al., 2007.[7]
- Philautus ponmudi
- Philautus sanctisilvaticus Das and Chanda, 1997
- Philautus shillongensis Pillai and Chanda, 1973
- Philautus signatus (Boulenger, 1882)
- Philautus similipalensis Dutta, 2003
- Philautus terebrans Das and Chanda, 1998
- Philautus tinniens (Jerdon, 1854)
- Philautus travancoricus (Boulenger, 1891)
- Philautus tuberohumerus
- Philautus wynaadensis (Jerdon, 1854)
- Polypedates gongshanensis
- Polypedates insularis Das, 1995
- Polypedates leucomystax (Gravenhorst, 1829)
- Chunam Frog Polypedates maculatus (Gray, 1833)
- Polypedates megacephalus Hallowell, 1861
- Polypedates pseudocruciger Das and Ravichandran, 1998
- Polypedates taeniatus (Boulenger, 1906)
- Rhacophorus appendiculatus (Günther, 1858)
- Rhacophorus bipunctatus Ahl, 1927
- Rhacophorus calcadensis Ahl, 1927
- Rhacophorus lateralis Boulenger, 1883
- Malabar Flying Frog Rhacophorus malabaricus Jerdon, 1870
Malabar Flying Frog, Rhacophorus malabaricus - Rhacophorus maximus Günther, 1858
- Rhacophorus namdaphaensis Sarkar and Sanyal, 1985
- Rhacophorus pseudomalabaricus Vasudevan and Dutta, 2000
- Rhacophorus tuberculatus (Anderson, 1871)
- Rhacophorus variabilis (Jerdon, 1854)
- Rhacophorus htunwini Wilkinson, Thin, Lwin, and Shein, 2005
- Rhacophorus translineatus Wu In Sichuan Institute of Biology Herpetology Department, 1977
- Rhacophorus kio Ohler and Delorme, 2006
- Theloderma asperum (Boulenger, 1886)
[edit] Family Sooglossidae
- Purple Frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis) Biju and Bossuyt, 2003
[edit] Order Gymnophiona
[edit] Family Caeciliidae
- Gegeneophis carnosus (Beddome, 1870)
- Amboli caecilian Gegeneophis danieli Giri, Wilkinson, and Gower, 2003
- Gegeneophis nadkarnii Gopalakrishna Bhatta and P. Prashanth, 2004 [8]
- Gegeneophis madhavai Gopalakrishna Bhatta and R. Srinivasa, 2004 [9]
- Gegeneophis fulleri (Alcock, 1904)
- Gegeneophis krishni Pillai and Ravichandran, 1999
- Forest Caecilian Gegeneophis ramaswamii Taylor, 1964
- Gegeneophis seshachari Ravichandran, Gower, and Wilkinson, 2003
- Indotyphlus battersbyi Taylor, 1960
- Maharashtra caecilian Indotyphlus maharashtraensis Giri, Wilkinson, and Gower, 2003
[edit] Family Ichthyophiidae
- Ichthyophis beddomei Peters, 1880
- Ichthyophis bombayensis Taylor, 1960
- Ichthyophis garoensis Pillai and Ravichandran, 1999
- Ichthyophis humphreyi Taylor, 1973
- Ichthyophis husaini Pillai and Ravichandran, 1999
- Ichthyophis longicephalus Pillai, 1986
- Ichthyophis malabarensis Taylor, 1960
- Ichthyophis peninsularis Taylor, 1960
- Ichthyophis sikkimensis Taylor, 1960
- Ichthyophis subterrestris Taylor, 1960
- Ichthyophis tricolor Annandale, 1909
- Uraeotyphlus interruptus Pillai and Ravichandran, 1999
- Uraeotyphlus malabaricus (Beddome, 1870)
- Uraeotyphlus menoni Annandale, 1913
- Uraeotyphlus narayani Seshachar, 1939
- Uraeotyphlus oxyurus (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)
[edit] Order Urodela
[edit] Family Salamandridae
- Himalayan Newt Tylototriton verrucosus Anderson, 1871
[edit] References
- ^ Daniels, R. J. R. (2001) Endemic fishes of the Western Ghats and the Satpura hypothesis. Current Science 81(3):240-244 PDF
- ^ Frost, Darrel R. 2006. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 4 (17 August 2006). Electronic Database accessible at [1]. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.
- ^ R. J. Ranjit Daniels (2005) Amphibians of Peninsular India. Universities Press.
- ^ Biju, S. D. et al. (2007) A new nightfrog Nyctibatrachus minimus sp. nov. (Anura: Nyctibatrachidae): The smallest frog from India. Current Science Vol. 93, No. 6: 854-858
- ^ Radhakrishnan, C. , K.P. Dinesh & M. S. Ravichandran (2007) A new species of Nyctibatrachus Boulenger (Amphibia: Anura: Nyctibatrachidae) from the Eravikulam National Park, Kerala, India. Zootaxa 1595: 31–41 PDF
- ^ Gururaja, KV and Aravind, NA and Ali, S and Ramachandra, TV and Velavan, TP and Krishnakumar, V and Aggarwal, RK (2007) A New Frog Species from the Central Western Ghats of India,and Its Phylogenetic Position. Zoological Science 24:pp. 525-534. Text
- ^ Gururaja, KV and Dinesh, KP and Palot, MJ and Radhakrishnan, C and Ramachandra, TV (2007) A new species of Philautus Gistel (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from southern Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa 1621:pp. 1-16. PDF
- ^ Gopalakrishna Bhatta and P. Prashanth (2004) Gegeneophis nadkarnii – a caecilian (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary,Western Ghats Current Science, 87(3):10 PDF
- ^ Gopalakrishna Bhatta & R. Srinivasa (2004) A new species of Gegeneophis Peters (Amphibia: Gymnophiona:Caeciliidae) from the surroundings of Mookambika Wildlife Sanctuary, Karnataka, India. Zootaxa 644: 1–8 PDF
