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

Darrel Frost Darrel Richmond Frost (born 1951) is an American herpetologist and systematist. He was previously head curator of herpetology at the American Museum of Natural History, as well as president of both the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Repti ...

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

Order Anura

Family Bufonidae

* 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 ''Duttaphrynus himalayanus'', also known as the Himalaya toad, Himalayan toad, Himalayan broad-skulled toad, and Günther's high altitude toad (among others), is a species of toad that is widely distributed throughout the Himalayan mountains. Th ...

'' (Günther, 1864) = ''Bufo himalayanus'' (Günther, 1864) * ''

Bufo hololius ''Duttaphrynus hololius'', known as Günther's toad, Malabar toad, or rock toad, is an uncommon, rock-dwelling toad found in the Eastern Ghats and Deccan plateau of peninsular India. Description The crown of this toad lacks bony ridges and has a ...

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

Duttaphrynus microtympanum ''Duttaphrynus microtympanum'' (common names: southern hill toad, small-eared toad) is a species of toad found in the Western Ghats of India, possibly wider. Description The head of this species has prominent bony ridges, viz. a canthal, a pr ...

'' (Boulenger, 1882) = ''Bufo microtympanum'' (Boulenger, 1882) * ''

Ingerophrynus macrotis ''Ingerophrynus macrotis'' is a toad species of the family Bufonidae that is native to Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam. Its presence in China is uncertain. Characteristics Crown without bony ridges; snout short, truncated; ...

'' (Boulenger, 1887) * ''

Bufo parietalis ''Duttaphrynus parietalis'', commonly known as the Indian toad or ridged toad, is a species of toad found in the Western Ghats of India. Description Head with very prominent ridges, namely a canthal, a slight preorbital, a supraorbital, a po ...

'' (Boulenger, 1882) * Ferguson's toad, ''

Bufo scaber ''Duttaphrynus scaber'' (common names: Schneider's (dwarf) toad, and for the now-synonymized ''Bufo fergusonii'', Ferguson's toad and Boulenger's burrowing toad) is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It is found in peninsular India and S ...

'' (Schneider, 1799) * ''

Bufo silentvalleyensis ''Duttaphrynus silentvalleyensis'', also known as the Silent Valley toad or South Indian hill toad, is a species of toad endemic to Kerala, southern India. The type specimen was collected near or in the Silent Valley National Park Silent V ...

'' (Pillai, 1981) * ''

Bufo stomaticus ''Duttaphrynus stomaticus'', also known as the Indian marbled toad, Punjab toad, Indus Valley toad, or marbled toad, is a species of toad found in Asia from eastern Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan to Nepal, extending into Peninsular India and Banglad ...

'' (Lütken, 1864) * Green toad, ''

Bufo viridis The European green toad (''Bufotes viridis'') is a species of toad found in steppes, mountainous areas, semi-deserts, urban areas and other habitats in mainland Europe, ranging from far eastern France and Denmark to the Balkans and Western Russi ...

'' * ''

Bufo stuarti ''Bufo stuarti'' is a species of toad found in Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for ...

'' ( Smith, 1929) * ''

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. Howe ...

'' (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 ''Euphlyctis ghoshi'' (Manipur frog, Ghosh's frog) is a species of frog found in Manipur, 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 ...

'' (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 ''Euphlyctis karaavali'' (Karaavali skittering frog) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae. It is endemic to the southwestern coast of India in Karnataka. Description It is a large adult size frog with snout to vent length in males ...

'' Priti et al., 2016 * '' Fejervarya andamanensis'' (

Stoliczka ''Stoliczka'' is a genus of Pakistani nursery web spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1885. it contains only two species, found only in Pakistan: '' S. affinis'' and '' S. insignis''. See also * List of Pisauridae ...

, 1870) = ''Limnonectes andamanensis'' (Stoliczka, 1870) * '' Fejervarya assimilis'' ( Blyth, 1852) * '' Fejervarya brama'' (Lesson, 1834) * '' Fejervarya brevipalmata'' ( Peters, 1871) * ''

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'' (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) * ''

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'' (Jerdon, 1854) * Indian bullfrog, '' Hoplobatrachus tigerinus'' ( Daudin, 1802) * ''

Limnonectes doriae ''Limnonectes doriae'' (common name: Burmese wart frog, Doria's frog, or red stream frog) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae found in the Southeast Asia. Etymology The specific name ''doriae'' commemorates the Italian naturalis ...

'' (Boulenger, 1887) * '' Limnonectes hascheanus'' (Stoliczka, 1870) * '' Limnonectes khasianus'' ( Anderson, 1871) * ''

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 Tschudi (variants: Schudy, Shoudy, Shudi, Schudi, Tschudy) is a surname common in the Canton of Glarus, Switzerland. History The Tschudi name can be traced back to 870. After Glarus joined the Swiss Confederation in 1352, various members of the fa ...

, 1838) * '' Limnonectes laticeps'' (

Boulenger Boulenger is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Benjamin Boulenger (born 1990), French footballer * Edward George Boulenger (1888–1946), British zoologist, director of aquarium at London Zoo * George Albert Boulenger (1858–1 ...

, 1882) * '' Limnonectes limborgi'' (

Sclater Philip Lutley Sclater (4 November 1829 – 27 June 1913) was an English lawyer and zoologist. In zoology, he was an expert ornithologist, and identified the main zoogeographic regions of the world. He was Secretary of the Zoological Society o ...

, 1892) * '' Limnonectes mawlyndipi'' (Chanda, 1990) * '' Limnonectes mawphlangensis'' (Pillai and Chanda, 1977) * '' Limnonectes shompenorum'' (Das, 1996) * ''

Minervarya charlesdarwini ''Minervarya charlesdarwini'' (vernacular name: Charles Darwin's frog) is a species of frogs in the family Dicroglossidae. It is endemic to the Andaman Islands, India, and is known from the South Andaman Island, Long Island, and North Andaman Is ...

'' (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 a ...

'' (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 com ...

'' (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 beyond ...

'' (Schneider, 1799) * '' Sphaerotheca dobsoni'' (Boulenger, 1882) * '' Sphaerotheca leucorhynchus'' (Rao, 1937) *

Marbled sand frog The marbled sand frog (''Tomopterna marmorata'') is a species of frog in the family Pyxicephalidae that is native to East and southern Africa. Range It is found in Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, and pos ...

Sphaerotheca rolandae ''Sphaerotheca rolandae'' (common names: Sri Lanka bullfrog, Roland's burrowing frog, southern burrowing frog, marble sand frog) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae found in Sri Lanka. It is controversial whether the species also oc ...

'' (Dubois, 1983)

Occidozyginae

* '' Occidozyga borealis'' (Annandale, 1912) * ''

Occidozyga lima ''Occidozyga'' is a genus of frogs in the family Dicroglossidae found in southeastern Asia between eastern India, southern China, and Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bord ...

'' (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 ''Leptobrachium smithi'' (common name Smith's litter frog) is a species of frog found in Southeast Asia. Its specific name honours Malcolm Arthur Smith, one of the early herpetologists to study the amphibians of Thailand. Description ''Leptobra ...

'' (Matsui, Nabhitabhata, and Panha, 1999) * ''

Scutiger boulengeri ''Scutiger boulengeri'' (common names: Boulenger's lazy toad, Boulenger's high altitude toad, Himalayan stream frog, and Xizang alpine toad) is a species of toad in the family Megophryidae. It is found in Nepal, India (Sikkim) and western China ( ...

'' (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 ''Xenophrys robusta'', commonly known as the Bengal spadefoot toad, robust spadefoot toad, or white-lipped horned toad, is a species of toad Toad is a common name for certain frogs, especially of the family Bufonidae, that are characterize ...

'' (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 ''Micrixalus elegans'' also known as "Elegant Dancing Frog" is a species of frog in the family Micrixalidae. It is Endemism, endemic to the Western Ghats, India, and occurs between the Palakkad Gap and Goa Gap in the states of Kerala and Karnat ...

'' (Rao, 1937) * ''

Micrixalus fuscus ''Micrixalus fuscus'' (dusky torrent frog or brown tropical frog) is a species of small frog found in dense forested hill streams in the Western Ghats of India. '' M. herrei'' was formerly synonymized within this species. Description Males me ...

'' (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 ''Micrixalus saxicola'' (black torrent frog, Malabar tropical frog, Jerdon's olive-brown frog, or small torrent frog) is a species of frog in the family Micrixalidae, found in forest streams in the Western Ghats of India.This frog has a brow ...

'' (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 ''Micryletta inornata'' is a rare species of frog in the family Microhylidae. It is endemic to the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, and is the type species for the genus ''Micryletta''. Many populations of ''Micryletta'' found across southeast As ...

'' (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 na ...

'' (Schneider, 1799) * ''

Melanobatrachus indicus ''Melanobatrachus'' is a genus of narrow-mouthed frogs in the family Microhylidae. It is the only remaining genus in the monotypic subfamily Melanobatrachinae. It contains a single species, ''Melanobatrachus indicus'', also known as the Indian ...

'' (Beddome, 1878) * '' Kaloula baleata'' (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'' (Vogt, 1911) * Ornate narrow-mouthed toad, ''

Microhyla ornata ''Microhyla ornata'', commonly known as the ornate narrow-mouthed frog, ornate narrow-mouthed toad, or ornamented pygmy frog, is a species of microhylid frog found in South Asia. This amphibian is distributed in Kashmir, Nepal, peninsular Ind ...

'' (Duméril and Bibron, 1841) * ''

Microhyla pulchra ''Microhyla pulchra'' is a species of narrow-mouthed frog found in northeastern India, southern China, and Southeast Asia south to at least Thailand but possibly as far south as Malaysia and Singapore. It has also been introduced to Guam Gu ...

'' (Hallowell, 1861) * ''

Microhyla rubra ''Microhyla rubra'' is a species of narrow-mouthed frog endemic to India. Earlier thought to exist also in Sri Lanka, new studies suggested that Sri Lankan population is a different species, now elevated to species level as '' Microhyla mihinta ...

'' (Jerdon, 1854) * '' Microhyla sholigari'' (Dutta and Ray, 2000) * '' Microhyla laterite'' Seshadri et al., 2016 * ''

Mysticellus franki Franky's narrow-mouthed frog (''Mysticellus franki'') is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae. It is the only member of the monotypic genus ''Mysticellus'', the mysterious narrow-mouthed frogs. It is endemic to the Western Ghats of Indi ...

'' 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 habit ...

'' (Dubois, 1984) * ''

Nyctibatrachus humayuni The Bombay night frog (''Nyctibatrachus humayuni''), also known as Abdulali's wrinkled frog, Abdulali's night frog or Humayun's wrinkled frog, is a species of frog in the family Nyctibatrachidae. It is endemic to the Western Ghats of Maharash ...

'' (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 Mala ...

'' (Boulenger, 1882) * ''

Nyctibatrachus minor ''Nyctibatrachus minor'' is a species of frog in the family Nyctibatrachidae endemic to the Western Ghats, India. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, and rivers. ...

'' (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 known ...

'' 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 ''Indirana brachytarsus'' is a species of frog found in the Western Ghats (including the Anaimalai Hills) of India. It is locally common terrestrial frog associated with hill streams in wet evergreen and semi-evergreen tropical forests and swa ...

'' (Günther, 1876) * '' Indirana diplosticta'' (Günther, 1876) * ''

Indirana gundia ''Indirana gundia'' is a species of frog found in the Western Ghats of 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, ...

'' (Dubois, 1986) * ''

Indirana leithii ''Indirana leithii'' (Leith's leaping frog, Leith's frog, Boulenger's brown frog, Matheran leaping frog, or Matheran Indian frog) is a species of frog in the family Ranixalidae. It is endemic to the northern Western Ghats of India. As currentl ...

'' (Boulenger, 1888) * ''

Indirana leptodactyla ''Walkerana leptodactyla'' is a species of frog endemic to the southern Western Ghats in Kerala and Tamil Nadu states of southern India. Precise reports are from Anaimalai hills, Palni hills, Meghamalai, Travancore hills and Agasthyamalai ...

'' (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 ''Indirana semipalmata'' is a species of frog endemism, endemic to the Western Ghats region of southern India. They are small frogs, reaching lengths of about from snout to vent. The species breeds during the monsoons, laying their eggs on mois ...

'' (Boulenger, 1882) * ''

Indirana tenuilingua ''Indirana tenuilingua'' is a species of frog that is considered '' nomen inquirendum''. It is only known from the type series, now lost, from its type locality, Kemphole (also spelled "Kempholey"), in the Western Ghats of India. It is somet ...

'' (Rao, 1937)

Family Ranidae

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Amolops chakrataensis ''Amolops chakrataensis'', also known as the Dehradun stream frog or Chakrata torrent frog, is a species of frog endemic to India. It is only known from its type locality near Chakrata in Uttarakhand (formerly Uttar Pradesh), near the Tiger Fal ...

'' (Ray, 1992) * ''

Amolops formosus ''Amolops formosus'', also known as Assam sucker frog, beautiful stream frog, Assam cascade frog, or hill stream frog, is a species of frog found in high gradient streams of northern India, northern Bangladesh, and Nepal, possibly also Bhutan, al ...

'' (Günther, 1876) * ''

Amolops gerbillus ''Amolops gerbillus'' is a species of frog found in Asia. It is native to northern and northeastern India, Tibet (China), and Myanmar, and possibly to Bhutan and Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Repu ...

'' (Annandale, 1912) * '' Amolops himalayanus'' (Boulenger, 1888) * '' Amolops jaunsari'' (Ray, 1992) * ''

Amolops marmoratus ''Amolops marmoratus'' is a species of ranid frog found in Asia. Its common names include marbled sucker frog, marbled cascade frog, Pegu torrent frog, and many others. The taxonomic status of many populations formerly assigned to this species is ...

'' (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 ''Amolops viridimaculatus'', also known as green-spotted torrent frog, Dahaoping sucker frog, and Dahaoping cascade frog, is a species of frog found in Yunnan, China, northern Vietnam, northern Myanmar, and Nagaland, Northeast India; it is also e ...

'' (Jiang, 1983) *

Bicolored frog The bicolored frog or Malabar frog (''Clinotarsus curtipes'') is a species of frog endemic to the Western Ghats of India. The tadpoles of the species are black and form dense and compact schools in slow moving streams in forested areas. Desc ...

, ''Clinotarsus curtipes'' (Jerdon, 1854) * '' Huia chloronota'' (Günther, 1876) * '' Humerana humeralis'' (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 from Bombay to Kerala. It is very similar to another species w ...

, ''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 w ...

'' * ''

Hydrophylax raniceps ''Chalcorana raniceps'', also known as the copper-cheeked frog, white-lipped frog, or Peters' Malaysian frog, is a species of " true frog" in the family Ranidae. It is endemic to Borneo, including Brunei Darussalam, Kalimantan (Indonesia), and Sa ...

'' (Peters, 1871) * '' Pterorana khare'' (Kiyasetuo and Khare, 1986) * '' Hylarana tytleri'' (Theobald, 1868) * '' Nasirana alticola'' (Boulenger, 1882) * Golden frog, ''

Hylarana aurantiaca ''Indosylvirana aurantiaca'', commonly known as the golden frog, is a species of frog endemic to the Western Ghats of India. The species is also known as the Trivandrum frog, the common wood frog, or the small wood frog. Taxonomy ''Indosylvi ...

'' (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 ''Sylvirana nigrovittata'', also known as the black-striped frog, black-spotted stream frog, sapgreen stream frog, etc., is a species of frog in the family Ranidae. It is found in northeastern India, Bangladesh, Nepal, southern China, Myanmar, T ...

'' (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 ''Kurixalus naso'', also known as uphill tree frog, long-snouted treefrog, and Annandale's high altitude frog, is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae. It is found in northeastern India, southern Tibet, and Bhutan. A related but unnamed ...

'' (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'' (Günther, 1876) * ''

Raorchestes charius ''Raorchestes charius'' (common names: Karnataka bubble-nest frog, Seshachar's bush frog, Chari's bush frog) is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae. It is endemic to the Western Ghats, India. It has been observed between 800 and 1400 ...

'' (Rao, 1937) * '' Raorchestes dubius'' (Boulenger, 1882) * '' Raorchestes femoralis'' Round-snout pygmy frog (Günther, 1864) * '' Raorchestes flaviventris'' (Boulenger, 1882) * '' Raorchestes garo'' (Boulenger, 1919) * ''

Raorchestes glandulosus ''Raorchestes glandulosus'', also known as glandular bush frog, rough-skinned bush frog, southern bubble-nest frog, and with many other names, is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae. It is endemic to the Western Ghats, India, and kno ...

'' (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'' Gururaja et al., 2007. * '' Raorchestes ponmudi'' * '' Raorchestes sanctisilvaticus'' (Das and Chanda, 1997) * '' Raorchestes shillongensis'' (Pillai and Chanda, 1973) * ''

Raorchestes signatus ''Raorchestes signatus'' is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae. It is endemic to the Western Ghats, India. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest. It is threatened ...

'' (Boulenger, 1882) * '' Raorchestes similipalensis'' (Dutta, 2003) * '' Raorchestes terebrans'' (Das and Chanda, 1998) * ''

Raorchestes tinniens ''Raorchestes tinniens'', also known as the spotted bush frog, black bush frog, and Rao's bubble-nest frog (the latter two referring to species now considered junior synonyms of ''R. tinniens''), is a species of frog in the family Rhacophorida ...

'' (Jerdon, 1854) * '' Raorchestes travancoricus'' (Boulenger, 1891) * '' Raorchestes tuberohumerus'' * '' Raorchestes wynaadensis'' (Jerdon, 1854) * ''

Polypedates bengalensis ''Polypedates bengalensis'', the brown blotched Bengal tree frog, is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae. It is endemic to West Bengal, India. Etymology The specific name, ''bengalensis'', is a reference to the type locality of the ...

'' Purkayastha et al., 2019 * '' Polypedates gongshanensis'' * ''

Polypedates insularis ''Polypedates insularis'' (Nicobarese tree frog) is a species of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae. It is endemic to Great Nicobar Island, India. Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests and intermittent freshwater marshes. It is ...

'' (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 ''Polypedates megacephalus'', the Hong Kong whipping frog or spot-legged tree frog, is a species in the shrub frog family (Rhacophoridae). In its native range, it is also called "brown tree frog", but this name is otherwise applied to a species ...

'' (Hallowell, 1861) * ''

Polypedates pseudocruciger ''Polypedates pseudocruciger'' (common names: false hour-glass tree frog or yellow tree frog) is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae endemic to the southern Western Ghats, India India, officially the Republic of India (Hind ...

'' (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 ''Rhacophorus lateralis'' is a Rhacophoridae, rhacophorid tree frog Endemism, endemic to the Western Ghats in South India. It has several common names: small tree frog, Boulenger's tree frog, small gliding frog, and winged gliding frog. After ...

'' (Boulenger, 1883) * Malabar flying frog, '' Rhacophorus malabaricus'' (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 ''Rhacophorus translineatus'' is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae. It is found in eastern Tibet (China) and in Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India, northeastern Indiaand Bhutan. ''Rhacophorus translineatus'' occurs in forests at elev ...

'' (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 ''Theloderma asperum'' is a frog in the family Rhacophoridae. It is also known as the pied warty frog, hill garden bug-eyed frog, or somewhat informally, bird poop frog. The frog can be found in the northeastern India, Burma, China (Tibet, possi ...

'' (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

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Gegeneophis ''Gegeneophis'' is a genus of amphibians in the family Grandisoniidae The Grandisoniidae are a family of common caecilians found in Africa, Seychelles and India. Like other caecilians, they superficially resemble worms or snakes. The family w ...

'' spp. * ''

Gegeneophis carnosus ''Gegeneophis carnosus'' is a species of caecilian found in Karnataka and Kerala states, India. Its common name Periah Peak caecilian refers to its type locality ( Periya Peak, Wayanad, Kerala), though it is also known under names blind caecilia ...

'' (Beddome, 1870) * Amboli caecilian, ''

Gegeneophis danieli ''Gegeneophis danieli'', the Amboli caecilian or Daniel's caecilian, is a species of caecilians in the family Indotyphlidae. It was discovered from near Amboli in Western Ghats of Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a stat ...

'' Giri, Gower and Wilkinson 2003 * ''

Gegeneophis goaensis ''Gegeneophis goaensis'', also known as the Goa caecilian, is a species of caecilian known from its type locality in Keri Village, Sattari Taluk, in the North Goa district of Goa, India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), ...

'' 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 Gurupur, near Mangalore in Karnataka, India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a count ...

'' 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 Mudur village, Kundapura Taluk in Udupi district in Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO: , , also known as Karunā� ...

'' Bhatta and Srinivasa, 2004 * ''

Gegeneophis mhadeiensis ''Gegeneophis'' is a genus of amphibians in the family Grandisoniidae The Grandisoniidae are a family of common caecilians found in Africa, Seychelles and India. Like other caecilians, they superficially resemble worms or snakes. The family w ...

'' 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 ''Gegeneophis'' is a genus of amphibians in the family Grandisoniidae The Grandisoniidae are a family of common caecilians found in Africa, Seychelles and India. Like other caecilians, they superficially resemble worms or snakes. The family w ...

'' Giri, Gower, Gaikwad & Wilkinson, 2011 * ''

Gegeneophis primus ''Gegeneophis primus'' is a species of caecilian discovered in Wynad district in the Western Ghats of Kerala, India. The species was described in 2012 by Ramachandran Kotharambath, Mark Wilkinson Mark Wilkinson (born 3 October 1952) is an ...

'' Kotharambath, Gower, Oomen & Wilkinson, 2012 * Forest caecilian, ''

Gegeneophis ramaswamii ''Gegeneophis ramaswamii'', common names Tenmalai caecilian, Tenmalai blind caecilian, Ramaswami's caecilian, and forest caecilian is a species of caecilian. It is endemic to the southern portion of the Western Ghats, India, and is recorded fr ...

'' Taylor, 1964 * ''

Gegeneophis seshachari ''Gegeneophis seshachari'', the Seshachari's caecilian, is a species of caecilian found in the Western Ghats of India. It is only known from its type locality Dorle village, Ratnagiri district in Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or ...

'' Ravichandran, Gower, and Wilkinson, 2003 ;'' Indotyphlus'' spp. * '' Indotyphlus battersbyi'' Taylor, 1960 * Maharashtra caecilian, '' Indotyphlus maharashtraensis'' Giri, Wilkinson, and Gower, 2003

Family Chikilidae

* Fuller's caecilian, ''

Chikila fulleri ''Chikila fulleri'', also known as the Kuttal caecilian, Fuller's caecilian, and Fuller's chikila, is a species of caecilian from South Asia. In 2012 it was reassigned to a newly erected family, Chikilidae. Etymology The specific name ''fulleri ...

'' (Alcock, 1904) formerly ''Gegeneophis fulleri'' * '' Chikila alcocki'' Kamei, Gower, Wilkinson & Biju, 2013 * '' Chikila darlong'' Kamei, Gower, Wilkinson & Biju, 2013 * '' Chikila gaiduwani'' 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 The Bombay caecilian (''Ichthyophis bombayensis'') is an amphibian found in India. This rather large species is found in the northern Western Ghats. The eyes are distinct and surrounded by a light ring. The tentacle is placed closer to the lip t ...

'' Taylor, 1960 * '' Ichthyophis daribokensis'' 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 ''Ichthyophis kodaguensis'', also known as the Kodagu striped Ichthyophis, is a species of caecilian in the family Ichthyophiidae. It is endemic to the southern Western Ghats, India. All confirmed records are from southern Karnataka state, alt ...

'' Wilkinson, Gower, Govindappa & Venkatachalaiah, 2007 * '' Ichthyophis khumhzi'' 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'' Taylor, 1960 * ''

Ichthyophis tricolor ''Ichthyophis tricolor'', the three-colored caecilian or Maddatorai caecilian, is an amphibian endemic to the Western Ghats, India. Its taxonomic status is unclear, including its relationship with ''Ichthyophis beddomei'' and the possibility o ...

'' 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'' Gower, Rajendran, Nussbaum, & Wilkinson, 2008 * '' Uraeotyphlus interruptus'' Pillai and Ravichandran, 1999 * '' Uraeotyphlus malabaricus'' (Beddome, 1870) * '' Uraeotyphlus menoni'' Annandale, 1913 * '' Uraeotyphlus narayani'' Seshachar, 1939 * '' Uraeotyphlus oommeni'' Gower & Wilkinson, 2007 * '' Uraeotyphlus oxyurus'' (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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Amphibians Amphibians are four-limbed and ectothermic vertebrates of the class Amphibia. All living amphibians belong to the group Lissamphibia. They inhabit a wide variety of habitats, with most species living within terrestrial, fossorial, arbore ...