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This is a comprehensive list of amphibians of Tasmania. They are all frogs.


Order Anura (frogs and toads)

*''Crinia nimbus'' (
moss froglet The moss froglet (''Crinia nimbus''), or moss frog, is a species of frog in the family Myobatrachidae. It is endemic to Tasmania. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, temperate shrubland, and swamp A swamp i ...
) *''Crinia signifera'' (
common eastern froglet The common eastern froglet (''Crinia signifera'') is a very common, Australian ground-dwelling frog, of the family Myobatrachidae. Distribution The common eastern froglet ranges from southeastern Australia, from Adelaide to Melbourne, up the ea ...
) *''Crinia tasmaniensis'' (
Tasmanian froglet The Tasmanian froglet (''Crinia tasmaniensis'') is a species of ground-dwelling frog that occurs only in Tasmania, Australia. Description This is a fairly small species of frog, up to about 30 mm. It is variable, but is generally brown (da ...
) *'' Geocrinia laevis'' (smooth froglet) *''
Limnodynastes dumerilii ''Limnodynastes dumerilii'' is a frog species from the family Limnodynastidae. The informal names for the species and its subspecies include eastern or southern banjo frog, and bull frog.Waite, Edgar R. (1929): ''The reptiles and amphibians of ...
'' (eastern banjo frog) *''Limnodynastes peronii'' (
striped marsh frog The striped marsh frog or brown-striped frog (''Limnodynastes peronii'') is a predominantly aquatic frog native to coastal Eastern Australia. It is a common species in urban habitats. Taxonomy The striped marsh frog was described by French nat ...
) *''Limnodynastes tasmaniensis'' ( spotted grass frog) *''Litoria ewingii'' (
southern brown tree frog The southern brown tree frog (''Litoria ewingii''), also known as the brown tree frog, whistling tree frog, or Ewing's tree frog, is a species of tree frog native to Australia: most of southern Victoria, eastern South Australia, southern New S ...
) *''Litoria burrowsae'' ( Tasmanian tree frog) *''Pseudophryne semimarmorata'' ( southern toadlet) *''Ranoidea raniformis'' (
growling grass frog The growling grass frog (''Ranoidea raniformis''), also commonly known as the southern bell frog, warty swamp frog and erroneously as the green frog, is a species of ground-dwelling tree frog native to southeastern Australia, ranging from sout ...
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References

*{{cite web , url=http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/wildlife/frogs/frogs.html , title=Wildlife of Tasmania: Frogs of Tasmania , publisher=
Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service is the government body responsible for protected areas of Tasmania on public land, such as national parks, historic sites and regional reserves. Historically it has also had responsibility for managing wildli ...
, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080303114818/http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/wildlife/frogs/frogs.html , archive-date=3 March 2008 Amphibians of Tasmania
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 ...
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