This is an index to the

amphibian Amphibians are tetrapod, four-limbed and ectothermic vertebrates of the Class (biology), class Amphibia. All living amphibians belong to the group Lissamphibia. They inhabit a wide variety of habitats, with most species living within terres ...

s found in

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. The amphibians of India show a high level of

endemism Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

. This list is based largely on

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(2006) and includes common names from older books and journals.

Order Anura

Family
Bufonidae {{Cat main, Toad This category contains both species commonly called toads, and the true toads from the family Bufonidae {{Cat main, Toad This category Category, plural categories, may refer to: Philosophy and general uses *Categorization, cat ...

* Ornate torrent toad, ''Ansonia ornata'' = ''

Ghatophryne ornata ''Blaira ornata'', known with common names ornate toad, Malabar torrent toad or black torrent toad, is a rare and endangered species of toad endemic to the Western Ghats. In 2009, this species along with ''A. rubigina'' was shifted from '' A ...

'' (Günther, 1876) * Silent Valley torrent toad, ''Ansonia ornata'' = ''

Ghatophryne rubigina ''Blaira rubigina'' is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It is endemic to the southern Western Ghats, India, and is known from Silent Valley and Wynaad, both in Kerala. Its common names include Kerala stream toad, Silent Valley torr ...

'' (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) * '' Xanthophryne koynayensis'' (Soman, 1963) * ''

Xanthophryne tigerina ''Xanthophryne tigerina'', sometimes known as the Amboli toad, is a species of toads. It is endemic to the Western Ghats of India and known only from the vicinity of Amboli, Sindhudurg district, Amboli in Maharashtra. It was described as a new ...

'' Biju, Bocxlaer, Giri, Loader and Bossuyt, 2009 * Ladakh toad, '' Pseudepidalea latastii'' Boulenger, 1882 = ''Bufo latastii'' * Common Indian toad, ''

Duttaphrynus melanostictus ''Duttaphrynus melanostictus'' is commonly called Asian common toad, Asian black-spined toad, Asian toad, black-spectacled toad, common Sunda toad, and Javanese toad. It is probably a complex of more than one true toad species that is widely d ...

'' (Schneider, 1799) = ''Bufo melanostictus'' Schneider, 1799 * '' 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'' (

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Bufoides meghalayanus ''Bufoides meghalayanus'' is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae, the true toads. It is also known as the Mawblang toad, rock toad, or Khasi Hills toad. It is endemic to northeastern India where it is known from Meghalaya and Mizoram. Howev ...

'' (Yazdani and Chanda, 1971) * '' Pedostibes kempi'' (Boulenger, 1919) * '' Pedostibes tuberculosus'' (Günther, 1876)

Family Dicroglossidae

Dicroglossinae

* Common skittering frog, ''

Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis ''Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis'' is a common dicroglossid frog found in South Asia. It is known under numerous common names, including Indian skipper frog or skittering frog. They are often seen at the edge of bodies of water with their eyes above ...

'' (Schneider, 1799) * '' Euphlyctis ghoshi'' (Chanda, 1991) * Indian five-fingered frog, ''

Euphlyctis hexadactylus ''Euphlyctis hexadactylus'', also known as the green pond frog, Indian green frog, and Indian five-fingered frog, is a common species of aquatic frog found in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. The nominal taxon likely represents a specie ...

'' (Lesson, 1834) * Karavali skittering frog, '' Euphlyctis karaavali'' Priti et al., 2016 * '' Fejervarya andamanensis'' ( Stoliczka, 1870) = ''Limnonectes andamanensis'' (Stoliczka, 1870) * '' Fejervarya assimilis'' ( Blyth, 1852) * '' Fejervarya brama'' (Lesson, 1834) * '' Fejervarya brevipalmata'' (

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Fejervarya cancrivora ''Fejervarya'' is a genera of frogs in the family Dicroglossidae found in Asia. First proposed in 1915 by István József Bolkay, a Hungarian naturalist, the genus did not see widespread adoption at first. As late as the 1990s it was generally in ...

'' ( Gravenhorst, 1829) * '' Fejervarya greenii'' (Boulenger, 1905) * '' Fejervarya keralensis'' (Dubois, 1981) * Alpine cricket frog, ''

Fejervarya limnocharis ''Fejervarya limnocharis'' is a species of frog found in South East Asia and parts of Indochina. It is known under many common names, including Boie's wart frog, rice field frog, and Asian grass frog. Molecular studies of the species complex (aft ...

'' (Gravenhorst, 1829) * '' Fejervarya murthii'' (Pillai, 1979) * '' Fejervarya mysorensis'' (Rao, 1922) * '' Fejervarya nicobariensis'' (Stoliczka, 1870) * '' Fejervarya nepalensis'' (Iskandar, 1998) * '' Fejervarya nilagirica'' ( Jerdon, 1854) * ''

Fejervarya orissaensis ''Fejervarya orissaensis'' (common name: Orissa frog) is a species of frog that is endemic to Orissa state in eastern India. Similar frogs, however, have been found in southwestern Thailand, and it is possible that ''Fejervarya orissaensis'' exis ...

'' (Dutta, 1997) * '' Fejervarya parambikulamana'' (Rao, 1937) * '' Fejervarya rufescens'' (Jerdon, 1854) * '' Fejervarya sauriceps'' (Rao, 1937) * ''

Fejervarya syhadrensis ''Minervarya syhadrensis'', commonly known as long-legged cricket frog, Syhadra frog, Bombay wart frog, and many others, is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae found in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal at low to moderate elevations. It is ...

'' = ''Limnonectes syhadrensis'' ( Annandale, 1919) * '' Fejervarya teraiensis'' (Dubois, 1984) * Jerdon's bullfrog, ''

Hoplobatrachus crassus ''Hoplobatrachus crassus'', also called Jerdon's bullfrog, Jerdon's bull frog, and South Indian bullfrog, is a species of frog found widely distributed on the plains of India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Its range may extend to the adjacen ...

'' (Jerdon, 1854) * Indian bullfrog, ''

Hoplobatrachus tigerinus ''Hoplobatrachus tigerinus'', commonly known as the Indian bullfrog, is a large species of fork-tongued frog found in South and Southeast Asia. A relatively large frog, it is normally green in color, although physiological traits vary between po ...

'' ( Daudin, 1802) * '' Limnonectes doriae'' (Boulenger, 1887) * ''

Limnonectes hascheanus ''Limnonectes hascheanus'' is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae. It is found in the Malay Peninsula (from southern Myanmar and Thailand to Peninsular Malaysia); its occurrence in the Andaman Islands requires confirmation. It is a sma ...

'' (Stoliczka, 1870) * '' Limnonectes khasianus'' (

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Limnonectes kuhlii Kuhl's creek frog or large-headed frog (''Limnonectes kuhlii'') is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae. Species complex ''L. kuhlii'' was once believed to have a broad distribution in Northeast India (Assam) and Southeast Asia, but a ...

'' ( Tschudi, 1838) * '' Limnonectes laticeps'' ( Boulenger, 1882) * ''

Limnonectes limborgi ''Limnonectes limborgi'' is a species of frog in the Dicroglossidae. It is found in Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam; it might well occur in Northeast India and Yunnan, China. It is a small frog, males being and females snout-vent l ...

'' ( Sclater, 1892) * '' Limnonectes mawlyndipi'' (Chanda, 1990) * '' Limnonectes mawphlangensis'' (Pillai and Chanda, 1977) * '' Limnonectes shompenorum'' (Das, 1996) * '' Minervarya charlesdarwini'' (Das, 1998) = ''Rana charlesdarwini'' * '' 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 ''Allopaa hazarensis'' (common names: Kashmir paa frog, Hazara frog, Hazara torrent frog ) is a species of frogs in the family Dicroglossidae. It is found in Hazara, Pakistan (where the type locality is, hence the name) and in Kashmir in India ...

'' (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 ''Nanorana pleskei'' (common names: Songpan slow frog, Pleske's high altitude frog, plateau frog) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae. Until recently it has been only known from southwestern/central western China (Yunnan, Sichuan, ...

'' (Günther, 1896) * Karez frog, ''Nanorana sternosignata'' = ''

Paa sternosignata ''Chrysopaa'' is a genus of frogs in the family Dicroglossidae. It is monotypic, being represented by the single species, ''Chrysopaa sternosignata''. It is found in Balochistan, Pakistan, Kashmir (Pakistan and India) and in Afghanistan. Its c ...

'' (Murray, 1885) * Murree Hills frog, ''Nanorana vicina'' = ''

Paa vicina ''Nanorana vicina'' (common names: Himalaya paa frog, Stoliczka's frog, Murree frog) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae. It is found in the Himalayan front of northern India and Pakistan. Its natural habitats are high-altitude rive ...

'' (Stoliczka, 1872) * ''Ombrana sikimensis'' = '' Chaparana sikimensis'' (Jerdon, 1870) * Burrowing frog, ''

Sphaerotheca breviceps The Indian burrowing frog (''Sphaerotheca breviceps'') is a species of frog found in South Asia (Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka and in Myanmar ). Description Its vomerine teeth form two oblique groups extending a little beyon ...

'' (Schneider, 1799) * '' Sphaerotheca dobsoni'' (Boulenger, 1882) * '' Sphaerotheca leucorhynchus'' (Rao, 1937) * Marbled sand frog '' Sphaerotheca rolandae'' (Dubois, 1983)

Occidozyginae

* '' Occidozyga borealis'' (Annandale, 1912) * '' Occidozyga lima'' (Gravenhorst, 1829) * ''

Occidozyga sumatrana The Sumatran puddle frog (''Occidozyga sumatrana'') is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae. It might be endemic to Indonesia. However, it has often been confused with '' Occidozyga laevis'', and was also for long considered to be its j ...

'' (Peters, 1877)

Family Hylidae

* ''

Hyla annectans ''Hyla annectans'' is a species of tree frog in the family Hylidae. It is found in Asia south of the Himalayas in northeast India (Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, and Meghalaya), northern Myanmar, and northern montane Vietnam and southwestern and cent ...

'' (Jerdon, 1870)

Family Megophryidae

* Hasselt's toad, ''

Leptobrachium hasseltii ''Leptobrachium hasseltii'' (Hasselt's toad, Java spadefoot toad, Hasselt's litter frog, Tschudi's frog) is a species of toad found in Southeast Asia. This frog named after Dutch Naturalist Johan Conrad van Hasselt. According to the current under ...

'' (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 ''Scutiger sikimmensis'' is a species of toad in the family Megophryidae. It is found in northeastern India (West Bengal, Sikkim, and Meghalaya), Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet. Many common names have been coined for this species: Sikkim lazy toad, Si ...

'' (Blyth, 1855) * ''

Xenophrys boettgeri Boettger's horned toad (''Boulenophrys boettgeri''), also known as Boettger's spadefoot toad or the pale-shouldered horned toad, is a species of toad found in southern and southeastern China (the northern border runs roughly from Sichuan in the ...

'' (Boulenger, 1899) * '' Xenophrys kempii'' (Annandale, 1912) * ''

Xenophrys major ''Xenophrys major'' is a species of toad Toad is a common name for certain frogs, especially of the family Bufonidae, that are characterized by dry, leathery skin, short legs, and large bumps covering the parotoid glands. A distinction b ...

'' (Boulenger, 1908) * ''

Xenophrys parva ''Boulenophrys parva'' is a species of horned frog found in South Asia and Southeast Asia, from eastern India and Nepal through Bangladesh and Burma to western Thailand and southern China (Yunnan and Guangxi) and northern Laos and Vietnam. Perhap ...

'' (Boulenger, 1893) * '' Xenophrys robusta'' (Boulenger, 1908) * ''

Xenophrys wuliangshanensis ''Boulenophrys wuliangshanensis'', commonly known as the Wuliangshan horned toad, is a species of frog found in eastern Asia. It has been found in Yunnan province in China and the state of Nagaland in India and it is thought to occur in Myanmar ( ...

Family Micrixalidae

* '' Micrixalus elegans'' (Rao, 1937) * '' Micrixalus fuscus'' (Boulenger, 1882) * ''

Micrixalus gadgili ''Micrixalus gadgili'' is a species of frog in the family Micrixalidae. It is endemic to the southern Western Ghats, India. Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss Habitat de ...

'' 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)

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 ''Uperodon variegatus'', also known as the Eluru dot frog, termite nest frog, variable ramanella, variagated ramanella, white-bellied pug snout frog, or variagated globular frog, is a species of narrow-mouthed frog (family Microhylidae) that is ...

'' (Stoliczka, 1872) * ''

Uperodon globulosus ''Uperodon globulosus'', or Indian balloon frog,'Indian balloon frog (Uperodon globulosus)' at http://www.arkive.org/indian-balloon-frog/uperodon-globulosus/ Accessed 21.9.2016. is a species of narrow-mouthed frog found in India, Nepal, and Ban ...

'' (Günther, 1864) * Marbled balloon frog, ''

Uperodon systoma ''Uperodon systoma'' is a species of narrow-mouthed frog found in Pakistan, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. It is known under many different common names: indistinct frog, marbled balloon frog, and lesser balloon frog. Description As the common n ...

'' (Schneider, 1799) * '' Melanobatrachus indicus'' (Beddome, 1878) * ''

Kaloula baleata ''Kaloula baleata'', the flower pot toad or sometimes the smooth-fingered narrow-mouthed frog, is a species of narrow-mouthed toad. It is native to India, Borneo, Indochinese Peninsula, Java, Malay Peninsula and Philippines where it lives in low ...

'' (Müller In Oort and Müller, 1833) * Painted frog, ''

Kaloula pulchra The banded bullfrog (''Kaloula pulchra'') is a species of frog in the narrow-mouthed frog family Microhylidae. Native to Southeast Asia, it is also known as the Asian painted frog, digging frog, Malaysian bullfrog, common Asian frog, and painte ...

'' (Gray, 1831) * ''

Kaloula assamensis ''Kaloula assamensis'', also known as Assamese balloon frog or Assam narrow-mouth toad, is a species of narrow-mouthed frogs found in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, and West Bengal in northeastern India. Range In Sonitpur District, Assam, ''Kaloula ...

'' (Das, Sengupta, Ahmed, and Dutta, 2005) * Sri Lankan bullfrog, '' Kaloula taprobanica'' (Parker, 1934) * ''

Microhyla berdmorei ''Microhyla berdmorei'' (common names: Berdmore's chorus frog, Berdmore's narrow-mouthed frog, Burmese microhylid frog, large pygmy frog, Pegu rice frog) is a species of narrow-mouthed frog found in eastern India, Bangladesh, southernmost China ...

'' (Blyth, 1856) * ''

Microhyla chakrapanii ''Microhyla chakrapanii'' is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae, the narrow-mouthed frogs. It is endemic to the Andaman Islands. It is also known as the Mayabunder rice frog, Chakrapani's narrow-mouthed frog, and bilateral banded frog. ...

'' (Pillai, 1977) * ''

Microhyla heymonsi ''Microhyla heymonsi'', also known as the dark-sided chorus frog or the Taiwan rice frog, is a species of narrow-mouthed frog found in northeastern India, southern China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia south to the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra as wel ...

'' (Vogt, 1911) * Ornate narrow-mouthed toad, '' Microhyla ornata'' (Duméril and Bibron, 1841) * '' Microhyla pulchra'' (Hallowell, 1861) * '' Microhyla rubra'' (Jerdon, 1854) * ''

Microhyla sholigari ''Microhyla sholigari'' is a species of microhylid frog endemic to southern India. It was described from the Biligirirangan Hills in Chamarajanagar district, Karnataka and is named after the Soliga tribal people living in the forests in and ...

'' (Dutta and Ray, 2000) * '' Microhyla laterite'' Seshadri et al., 2016 * '' Mysticellus franki'' Garg & Biju, 2019

Family Nyctibatrachidae

* '' Nyctibatrachus aliciae'' (Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984) * ''

Nyctibatrachus beddomii ''Nyctibatrachus beddomii'' (common names: Beddome's night frog, pigmy wrinkled frog, Beddome's dwarf wrinkled frog, and Tirunelveli's hill frog) is a species of frog in the family Nyctibatrachidae. The epithet or specific name, ''beddomii'', ...

'' (Boulenger, 1882) * ''

Nyctibatrachus deccanensis ''Nyctibatrachus deccanensis'' (common names: Deccan night frog, Deccan wrinkled frog) is a species of frogs in the family Nyctibatrachidae. It is endemic to the southern Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu and Kerala states, India. Its natural habi ...

'' (Dubois, 1984) * '' Nyctibatrachus humayuni'' (Bhaduri and Kripalani, 1955) * '' Nyctibatrachus hussaini'' (Krishnamurthy, Reddy, and Gururaja, 2001) * '' Nyctibatrachus kempholeyensis'' (Rao, 1937) * ''

Nyctibatrachus major ''Nyctibatrachus major'' is a species of frog in the family Nyctibatrachidae. Its English names are Malabar night frog, large wrinkled frog and Boulenger's narrow-eyed frog Geographic range It is endemic to elevations of 110–920 m, in Mal ...

'' (Boulenger, 1882) * '' Nyctibatrachus minor'' (Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984) * '' Nyctibatrachus periyar'' Biju et al., 2011 * '' Nyctibatrachus petraeus'' (Das and Kunte, 2005) * '' Nyctibatrachus sanctipalustris'' (Rao, 1920) * '' Nyctibatrachus sylvaticus'' (Rao, 1937) * '' Nyctibatrachus vasanthi'' (Ravichandran, 1997) * '' Nyctibatrachus minimus'' Biju et al., 2007. * ''Nyctibatrachus sholai'' Radhakrishnan, Dinesh & Ravichandran, 2007. * ''

Nyctibatrachus dattatreyaensis The Dattatreya night frog (''Nyctibatrachus dattatreyaensis'') is a species of frog in the family Nyctibatrachidae first described in the Shola forests around the Dattatreya Peeta in the Chikkamagaluru district of Karnataka. It is still know ...

'' Dinesh K P, Radhakrishnan C & Gopalakrishna Bhatta, 2008

Family Petropedetidae

* ''

Indirana beddomii ''Indirana beddomii'', Beddome's leaping frog, Beddome's Indian frog, or simply Beddome's frog, is a species of frog found in the Western Ghats. They are usually detected by their long leaps as they flush from the ground when disturbed. The sp ...

'' (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 ''Walkerana phrynoderma'' is a species of frog endemic to the Anaimalai Hills, of the Western Ghats of Kerala and Tamil nadu states in southern India. This species is known from Munnar, Eravikulam National Park, Valparai tea gardens, Anamalai ...

'' (Boulenger, 1882) * '' Indirana semipalmata'' (Boulenger, 1882) * '' Indirana tenuilingua'' (Rao, 1937)

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 ''Amolops monticola'' is a species of frog in the family Ranidae, the " true frogs". It is found in the Northeast India, eastern Nepal, and western China (Tibet, Yunnan), although there is some uncertainty regarding the Chinese records. It probab ...

'' (Anderson, 1871) * '' Amolops viridimaculatus'' (Jiang, 1983) * Bicolored frog, ''Clinotarsus curtipes'' (Jerdon, 1854) * '' Huia chloronota'' (Günther, 1876) * ''

Humerana humeralis ''Humerana humeralis'' is a species of frog in the family Ranidae. It is found in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and possibly Bhutan. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and rivers. It is threatened by habi ...

'' (Boulenger, 1887) *

Fungoid frog The fungoid frog or Malabar Hills frog (''Hydrophylax malabaricus'') is a colourful frog found on the forest floor and lower vegetation in the Western Ghats in south-western India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is ...

, ''Hydrophylax malabaricus'' (Tschudi, 1838) * ''

Hydrophylax bahuvistara ''Hydrophylax bahuvistara'', commonly known as the widespread fungoid frog, is a colourful frog found widespread in peninsular India, distributed in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Goa and Madhya Pradesh. It is very similar to another species with ...

'' * '' Hydrophylax raniceps'' (Peters, 1871) * '' Pterorana khare'' (Kiyasetuo and Khare, 1986) * '' Hylarana tytleri'' (Theobald, 1868) * '' Nasirana alticola'' (Boulenger, 1882) * Golden frog, '' Hylarana aurantiaca'' (Boulenger, 1904) * '' Hylarana chitwanensis'' (Das, 1998) * Boulenger's Garo hill frog, '' Hylarana garoensis'' (Boulenger, 1920 ) * ''

Hylarana leptoglossa ''Hylarana leptoglossa'', commonly known as the long-tongued frog, is a species of true frog in the genus ''Hylarana''. It is native to Bangladesh, northeastern India, Myanmar, and western Thailand. It is also known under the common names Cope's ...

'' (Cope, 1868) * '' Hylarana nigrovittata'' (Blyth, 1856) * Bronzed frog, ''Hylarana temporalis'' (Günther, 1864)

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) * ''Ghatixalus variabilis'' (Jerdon, 1853) * '' Nyctixalus moloch'' (Annandale, 1912) * ''Kurixalus verrucosus'' = '' Rhacophorus verrucosus'' (Boulenger, 1893) * ''Aquixalus bisacculus'' = '' Rhacophorus bisacculus'' (Taylor, 1962) * ''Aquixalus naso'' = '' Polypedates naso'' (Annandale, 1912) * '' Raorchestes andersoni'' (Ahl, 1927) * '' Raorchestes anili'' (Biju and Bossuyt, 2006) * '' Raorchestes luteolus'' (Kuramoto and Joshy, 2003) * '' Raorchestes tuberohumerus'' (Kuramoto and Joshy, 2003) * '' Raorchestes annandalii'' (Boulenger, 1906) * '' Raorchestes beddomii'' (Günther, 1876) * '' Raorchestes bobingeri'' (Biju and Bossuyt, 2005) * '' Raorchestes bombayensis'' (Annandale, 1919) * ''

Raorchestes chalazodes ''Raorchestes chalazodes'' (Chalazodes bubble-nest frog, white-spotted bush frog, or Günther's bush frog) is a species of critically endangered frog in the family Rhacophoridae. ''Raorchestes chalazode''s is a nocturnal and arboreal species fo ...

'' (Günther, 1876) * '' Raorchestes charius'' (Rao, 1937) * '' Raorchestes dubius'' (Boulenger, 1882) * '' Raorchestes femoralis'' Round-snout pygmy frog (Günther, 1864) * '' Raorchestes flaviventris'' (Boulenger, 1882) * '' Raorchestes garo'' (Boulenger, 1919) * '' Raorchestes glandulosus'' (Jerdon, 1854) * '' Raorchestes graminirupes'' (Biju & Bossuyt, 2005) * '' Raorchestes griet'' (Bossuyt, 2002) * '' Raorchestes jerdonii'' (Günther, 1876) * '' Raorchestes kempiae'' (Boulenger, 1919) * '' Raorchestes luteolus'' = ''Raorchestes neelanethrus'' Gururaja et al., 2007 * '' Raorchestes microdiscus'' (Annandale, 1912) * '' Raorchestes namdaphaensis'' (Sarkar and Sanyal, 1985) * Sharp-snout pygmy tree frog, '' Raorchestes nasutus'' * '' Raorchestes nerostagona'' * ''

Raorchestes ochlandrae ''Raorchestes ochlandrae'' (common name: Ochlandrae reed frog) is a species of shrub frog in the family Rhacophoridae. It is endemic to the Western Ghats, India. This species of the oriental shrub frog was first described from Kakkayam Reserve ...

'' Gururaja et al., 2007. * '' Raorchestes ponmudi'' * '' Raorchestes sanctisilvaticus'' (Das and Chanda, 1997) * '' Raorchestes shillongensis'' (Pillai and Chanda, 1973) * '' Raorchestes signatus'' (Boulenger, 1882) * '' Raorchestes similipalensis'' (Dutta, 2003) * '' Raorchestes terebrans'' (Das and Chanda, 1998) * '' Raorchestes tinniens'' (Jerdon, 1854) * '' Raorchestes travancoricus'' (Boulenger, 1891) * '' Raorchestes tuberohumerus'' * '' Raorchestes wynaadensis'' (Jerdon, 1854) * '' Polypedates bengalensis'' Purkayastha et al., 2019 * '' Polypedates gongshanensis'' * '' Polypedates insularis'' (Das, 1995) * ''

Polypedates leucomystax ''Polypedates'' is a genus of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae, the shrub frogs and Paleotropic tree frogs. They belong to subfamily Rhacophorinae. Members of this genus are collectively known as whipping frogs. They occur in eastern and south ...

'' (Gravenhorst, 1829) * ''

Polypedates maculatus ''Polypedates maculatus'', the Indian tree frog, or Chunam tree frog, is a common species of tree frog found in South Asia. It was described by John Edward Gray in 1830. Although now considered as a separate species again, for a time, the Hima ...

'' (Gray, 1833) chunam frog * '' Polypedates megacephalus'' (Hallowell, 1861) * '' Polypedates pseudocruciger'' (Das and Ravichandran, 1998) * '' Polypedates taeniatus'' (Boulenger, 1906) * '' Rhacophorus appendiculatus'' (Günther, 1858) * ''

Rhacophorus bipunctatus :''In sources published from 1999 onwards, the name ''Rhacophorus bipunctatus'' can also refer to '' R. rhodopus'' (see "Taxonomy" section).'' ''Rhacophorus bipunctatus'' is a frog species in the moss frog family (Rhacophoridae) found from eastern ...

'' (Ahl, 1927) * ''

Rhacophorus calcadensis ''Rhacophorus calcadensis'', also known as the Kalakad gliding frog, Kalakkad tree frog, and Langbian flying frog, is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae Endemism, endemic to the southern Western Ghats in Kerala and Tamil Nadu states, ...

'' (Ahl, 1927) * '' Rhacophorus lateralis'' (Boulenger, 1883) * Malabar flying frog, ''

Rhacophorus malabaricus The Malabar gliding frog or Malabar flying frog (''Rhacophorus malabaricus'') is a rhacophorid tree frog species found in the Western Ghats of India. Pictures The term "gliding" frog refers to its ability to break its fall by stretching ...

'' (Jerdon, 1870) * '' Rhacophorus maximus'' (Günther, 1858) * '' Rhacophorus namdaphaensis'' (Sarkar and Sanyal, 1985) * ''

Rhacophorus pseudomalabaricus ''Rhacophorus pseudomalabaricus'', also known as Anaimalai flying frog, false Malabar gliding frog, and false Malabar tree frog, is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae. It is endemic to the Anaimalai Hills, a part of the southern the ...

'' (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 ''Rhacophorus kio'' is a species of flying frog in the family Rhacophoridae and is found in the rainforests of southeast Asia, in countries such as China, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its ability to glide and its adhesive toe pads make it well a ...

'' (Ohler and Delorme, 2006) * '' Theloderma asperum'' (Boulenger, 1886)

Family Sooglossidae

Purple frog The purple frog (''Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis''), Indian purple frog, or pignose frog is a frog species of the genus '' Nasikabatrachus''. It is endemic to the Western Ghats in India. Although the adult frog was formally described in Octobe ...

, ''Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis'' (Biju and Bossuyt, 2003) * Bhupathy's purple frog, ''Nasikabatrachus bupathi'' (Janani, Vasudevan, Prendini, Dutta, and Aggarwal, 2017)

Order Gymnophiona

The list of Indian caecilians is based on Giri & Gaikwad (2013) (duly amended):

Family Caeciliidae

;'' Gegeneophis'' spp. * '' Gegeneophis carnosus'' (Beddome, 1870) * Amboli caecilian, '' Gegeneophis danieli'' Giri, Gower and Wilkinson 2003 * '' Gegeneophis goaensis'' Bhatta, Dinesh, Prashanth & Kulkarni, 2007 * ''

Gegeneophis krishni ''Gegeneophis krishni'', the Gurupur caecilian, is a species of caecilian found in India. It is only known from its Type locality (biology), type locality Gurupur, near Mangalore in Karnataka, India. References

Gegeneophis, krishni Amp ...

'' Pillai and Ravichandran, 1999 * ''

Gegeneophis madhavai ''Gegeneophis madhavai'', the Mudur caecilian, is a species of caecilian found in India. It is only known from its Type locality (biology), type locality Mudur village, Kundapura Taluk in Udupi district in Karnataka. References

Gegeneo ...

'' Bhatta and Srinivasa, 2004 * '' Gegeneophis mhadeiensis'' Bhatta, Dinesh, Prashanth & Kulkarni, 2007 * '' Gegeneophis nadkarnii'' Bhatta and Prashanth, 2004Bhatta, Gopalakrishna & Prashanth, P. (2004)
"''Gegeneophis nadkarnii'' – a caecilian (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats"
''Current Science''. 87 (3): 10. * '' Gegeneophis pareshi'' Giri, Gower, Gaikwad & Wilkinson, 2011 * '' Gegeneophis primus'' Kotharambath, Gower, Oomen & Wilkinson, 2012 * Forest caecilian, '' Gegeneophis ramaswamii'' Taylor, 1964 * '' Gegeneophis seshachari'' Ravichandran, Gower, and Wilkinson, 2003 ;''

Indotyphlus ''Indotyphlus'' is a small genus of caecilians in the family Grandisoniidae. As caecilians in general, they superficially resemble earthworms. The genus is endemic to the Western Ghats, India. They are sometimes known as Battersby's caecilian ...

'' spp. * ''

Indotyphlus battersbyi Battersby's caecilian (''Indotyphlus battersbyi'') is a slender species of caecilian endemic to the Western Ghats, India. It has a flesh-coloured body, making it look very much like a large earthworm. Description The eyes of Battersby's caecil ...

'' Taylor, 1960 * Maharashtra caecilian, ''

Indotyphlus maharashtraensis ''Indotyphlus maharashtraensis'' is a species of caecilians described in 2004 by scientists of Bombay Natural History Society and the Natural History Museum, London. It is only the second species of ''Indotyphlus'' known to science, and only kn ...

'' Giri, Wilkinson, and Gower, 2003

Family Chikilidae

* Fuller's caecilian, '' Chikila fulleri'' (Alcock, 1904) formerly ''Gegeneophis fulleri'' * ''

Chikila alcocki ''Chikila'' is a genus of amphibian in the order Gymnophiona (caecilians). It is the only genus within the family Chikilidae. All members of the genus are known from northeast India and Bangladesh. Species There are four recognized species: Re ...

'' Kamei, Gower, Wilkinson & Biju, 2013 * ''

Chikila darlong ''Chikila'' is a genus of amphibian in the order Gymnophiona (caecilians). It is the only genus within the family Chikilidae. All members of the genus are known from northeast India and Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People ...

'' Kamei, Gower, Wilkinson & Biju, 2013 * ''

Chikila gaiduwani ''Chikila'' is a genus of amphibian in the order Gymnophiona (caecilians). It is the only genus within the family Chikilidae. All members of the genus are known from northeast India and Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People ...

'' Kamei, Gower, Wilkinson & Biju, 2013

Family Ichthyophiidae

Ichthyophis ''Ichthyophis'' is a genus of caecilians (limbless amphibians, sometimes called the Asian caecilians) found in Southeast Asia, the southern Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippi ...

'' spp.Three species of ''Icthyophis'', namely '' Ichthyophis malabarensis'' Taylor, 1960, '' I. peninsularis'' Taylor, 1960 and '' I. subterrestris'' Taylor, 1960, were merged due to lack of phylogenetic deifferentiation vide * '' Ichthyophis alfredii'' Mathew & Sen, 2009 * ''

Ichthyophis beddomei ''Ichthyophis beddomei'' is a species of caecilian in the family Ichthyophiidae. This species is distributed widely in the Western Ghats in southern India. The nominal species might be a composite of several cryptic species. It is also known a ...

'' Peters, 1880 * '' Ichthyophis bombayensis'' Taylor, 1960 * ''

Ichthyophis daribokensis ''Ichthyophis daribokensis'', or Daribok's striped caecilian, is a species of amphibian Amphibians are four-limbed and ectothermic vertebrates of the class Amphibia. All living amphibians belong to the group Lissamphibia. They inhabit ...

'' Mathew & Sen 2009 * ''

Ichthyophis garoensis ''Ichthyophis garoensis'', the Garo Hills caecilian, is a species of caecilian found in Assam and Meghalaya in north-eastern India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest c ...

'' Pillai and Ravichandran, 1999 * '' Ichthyophis davidi'' Bhatta, Dinesh, Kulkarni, Radhakrishnan 2011 * '' Ichthyophis husaini'' Pillai and Ravichandran, 1999 * '' Ichthyophis kodaguensis'' Wilkinson, Gower, Govindappa & Venkatachalaiah, 2007 * ''

Ichthyophis khumhzi ''Ichthyophis khumhzi'', the Khumhzi striped ichthyophis, is a species of caecilian found in India. It has narrow and irregular lateral yellow stripes. It can attain lengths larger than . Its head is V-shaped while short; the animal shows scales ...

'' Kamei, Wilkinson, Gower & Biju, 2009 * '' Ichthyophis longicephalus'' Pillai, 1986 * '' Ichthyophis moustakius'' Kamei, Wilkinson, Gower & Biju, 2009 * '' Ichthyophis nokrekensis'' Mathew & Sen, 2009 * '' Ichthyophis sendenyu'' Kamei, Wilkinson, Gower & Biju, 2009 * ''

Ichthyophis sikkimensis ''Ichthyophis sikkimensis'', the Sikkimese caecilian or Darjeeling caecilian, is a species of caecilian found in India (Sikkim and West Bengal), Nepal and possibly Bhutan. It was described by Edward Harrison Taylor Edward Harrison Taylor (Apri ...

'' Taylor, 1960 * '' Ichthyophis tricolor'' Annandale, 1909 ;''

Uraeotyphlus ''Uraeotyphlus'' is a genus of caecilians in the family Ichthyophiidae. There are seven species in this genus, all of which are endemic to the Western Ghats of southwestern India. Previously, the genus has also been placed in its own monotypic ...

'' spp. * ''

Uraeotyphlus gansi ''Uraeotyphlus gansi'', the Gansi caecilian, is a rare species of caecilian, endemic to the Western Ghats of India. It was discovered in the Kaakkaachi-Naalumukku area of the Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve. ''U. gansi'' was named after Ca ...

'' Gower, Rajendran, Nussbaum, & Wilkinson, 2008 * ''

Uraeotyphlus interruptus ''Uraeotyphlus interruptus'', also known as the Chengalam caecilian, is a species of caecilian in the family Ichthyophiidae. It is endemic to the Western Ghats in southern India and is only known from its type locality, Chengalam village in ...

'' Pillai and Ravichandran, 1999 * ''

Uraeotyphlus malabaricus ''Uraeotyphlus malabaricus'' is a species of caecilian in the family Ichthyophiidae. It is endemic to the Western Ghats of India and is known from its type locality, " Malabar" in Kerala, and from the Nilgiri mountains in Tamil Nadu. It is kn ...

'' (Beddome, 1870) * ''

Uraeotyphlus menoni ''Uraeotyphlus menoni'', also known as Menon's caecilian or Kerala caecilian, is a species of caecilian in the family Ichthyophiidae. It is endemic to the state of Kerala in the Western Ghats, India. The specific name ''menoni'' honours K. R ...

'' Annandale, 1913 * ''

Uraeotyphlus narayani ''Uraeotyphlus narayani'', or Narayan's caecilian, is a species of caecilian endemic to the Western Ghats of India. Description This species is grey with a pale, flesh-coloured belly. A median greenish line runs between the chin and the tail ...

'' Seshachar, 1939 * ''

Uraeotyphlus oommeni ''Uraeotyphlus oommeni'', sometimes known as the Oommen's caecilian, Oommen's Uraeotyphlus, or Bonnacord caecilian, is a species of caecilian in the family Ichthyophiidae. Within ''Uraeotyphlus'', it belongs to the '' U. malabaricus'' group sho ...

'' Gower & Wilkinson, 2007 * ''

Uraeotyphlus oxyurus ''Uraeotyphlus oxyurus'', also known as the red caecilian, sharp-nosed caecilian, dark-brown caecilian, pale-throated caecilian, or harp-tailed caecilian, is a species of caecilian in the family Ichthyophiidae. It is endemic to the Western Gha ...

'' (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)

Order Urodela

Family Salamandridae

* Himalayan newt, ''

Tylototriton verrucosus ''Tylototriton verrucosus'' is a species of newt found in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Common names include: Himalayan newt, crocodile newt, crocodile salamander, Himalayan salamander, red knobby newt. Description This newt can ...

'' (Anderson, 1871)

References

External links

Global Amphibian Assessment

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