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International Union for Conservation of Nature The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natu ...
(IUCN), 93
reptile Reptiles, as most commonly defined are the animals in the class Reptilia ( ), a paraphyletic grouping comprising all sauropsids except birds. Living reptiles comprise turtles, crocodilians, squamates (lizards and snakes) and rhynchocephalians ( ...
and
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 ...
species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
in the
United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...
are
threatened Threatened species are any species (including animals, plants and fungi) which are vulnerable to endangerment in the near future. Species that are threatened are sometimes characterised by the population dynamics measure of ''critical depensat ...
with
extinction Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
. The IUCN has classified each of these species into one of three
conservation status The conservation status of a group of organisms (for instance, a species) indicates whether the group still exists and how likely the group is to become extinct in the near future. Many factors are taken into account when assessing conservation ...
es: vulnerable ,
endangered An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction. Endangered species may be at risk due to factors such as habitat loss, poaching and inva ...
, and critically endangered .


Order

Crocodilia Crocodilia (or Crocodylia, both ) is an order of mostly large, predatory, semiaquatic reptiles, known as crocodilians. They first appeared 95 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period ( Cenomanian stage) and are the closest living ...
(crocodilians)

Family
Crocodylidae Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. The term crocodile is sometimes used even more loosely to include all extant mem ...
(crocodiles) *
American crocodile The American crocodile (''Crocodylus acutus'') is a species of crocodilian found in the Neotropics. It is the most widespread of the four extant species of crocodiles from the Americas, with populations present from South Florida and the coasts ...
(''Crocodylus acutus'')


Order

Testudines Turtles are an order (biology), order of reptiles known as Testudines, characterized by a special turtle shell, shell developed mainly from their ribs. Modern turtles are divided into two major groups, the Pleurodira (side necked turtles) an ...
(turtles)

Family
Chelydridae The Chelydridae is a family of turtles that has seven extinct and two extant genera. The extant genera are the snapping turtles, ''Chelydra'' and '' Macrochelys''. Both are endemic to the Western Hemisphere. The extinct genera are '' Acherontemy ...
(snapping turtles) *
Alligator snapping turtle The alligator snapping turtle (''Macrochelys temminckii'') is a large species of turtle in the family Chelydridae. The species is native to freshwater habitats in the United States. ''M. temminckii'' is one of the heaviest freshwater turtles in ...
(''Macrochelys temminckii'') Family
Kinosternidae The Kinosternidae are a family of mostly small turtles that includes the mud turtles and musk turtles. The family contains 25 species within four genera, but taxonomic reclassification is an ongoing process, so many sources vary on the exact numb ...
(mud turtles and musk turtles) *
Flattened musk turtle The flattened musk turtle (''Sternotherus depressus'') is a critically endangered species of freshwater turtle in the Family (biology), family Kinosternidae. The species is Endemism, endemic to the southern United States. Geographic range ''S. ...
(''Sternotherus depressus'') Family
Emydidae Emydidae (Latin ''emys'' (freshwater tortoise) + Ancient Greek εἶδος (''eîdos'', “appearance, resemblance”)) is a family of testudines (turtles) that includes close to 50 species in 10 genera. Members of this family are commonly calle ...
(pond turtles) *
Spotted turtle The spotted turtle (''Clemmys guttata''), the only species of the genus ''Clemmys'', is a small, semi-aquatic turtle that reaches a carapace length of upon adulthood. Their broad, smooth, low dark-colored upper shell, or carapace, ranges in its ...
(''Clemmys guttata'') *
Bog turtle The bog turtle (''Glyptemys muhlenbergii'') is a critically endangered species of semiaquatic turtle in the family Emydidae. The species is endemic to the eastern United States. It was first scientifically described in 1801 after an 18th-century ...
(''Glyptemys muhlenbergii'') *
Wood turtle The wood turtle (''Glyptemys insculpta'') is a species of turtle endemic to North America. It is in the genus ''Glyptemys'', a genus which contains only one other species of turtle: the bog turtle (''Glyptemys muhlenbergii'' ). The wood turtle ...
(''Glyptemys insculpta'') *
Common box turtle The common box turtle (''Terrapene carolina'') is a species of box turtle with six existing subspecies. It is found throughout the Eastern United States and Mexico. The box turtle has a distinctive hinged lowered shell (the box) that allows it ...
(''Terrapene carolina'') *
Blanding's turtle Blanding's turtle (''Emydoidea blandingii'') is a semi-aquatic turtle of the family Emydidae. This species is native to central and eastern parts of Canada and the United States. It is considered to be an endangered species throughout much of i ...
(''Emys blandingii'') *
Western pond turtle The Western pond turtle (''Actinemys marmorata''), also known commonly as the Pacific pond turtle is a species of small to medium-sized turtle in the family Emydidae. The species is endemic to the western coast of the United States and Mexico, r ...
(''Actinemys marmorata'') *
Barbour's map turtle Barbour's map turtle (''Graptemys barbouri'') is a species of turtle in the family Emydidae. The species is native to the southeastern United States. Geographic range ''G. barbouri'' is found in rivers located in southeastern Alabama, the west ...
(''Graptemys barbouri'') * Cagle's map turtle (''Graptemys caglei'') *
Yellow-blotched map turtle The yellow-blotched map turtle (''Graptemys flavimaculata''), or yellow-blotched sawback, is a species of turtle in the family Emydidae. It is part of the narrow-headed group of map turtles, and is endemic to the southern United States. Conse ...
(''Graptemys flavimaculata'') * Pascagoula map turtle (''Graptemys gibbonsi'') **
Pearl River map turtle The Pearl River map turtle (''Graptemys pearlensis'') is a species of emydid turtle native to the southern United States. According to a study done in January 2017, the species ''G. pearlensis'' was significantly less abundant in the Pearl River ...
(''Graptemys pearlensis'') , species not recognized by SSAR *
Ringed map turtle The ringed map turtle or ringed sawback (''Graptemys oculifera'') is a species of turtle in the family Emydidae endemic to the southern United States. Geographic range It is frequently found in the Pearl River system in Louisiana and Mississip ...
(''Graptemys oculifera'') *
Big Bend slider The Big Bend slider (''Trachemys gaigeae''), also called the Mexican Plateau slider, is a species of aquatic turtle in the family Emydidae. The species is endemic to the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Taxonomy The species ''Tr ...
(''Trachemys gaigeae'') *
Alabama red-bellied cooter The Alabama red-bellied cooter (''Pseudemys alabamensis'') or Alabama red-bellied turtle, is native to Alabama. It belongs to the turtle family Emydidae, the pond turtles. It is the official reptile of the state of Alabama. Life history The re ...
(''Pseudemys alabamensis'') Family Testudinidae (tortoises) *
Gopher tortoise The gopher tortoise (''Gopherus polyphemus'') is a species of tortoise in the family Testudinidae. The species is native to the southeastern United States. The gopher tortoise is seen as a keystone species because it digs burrows that provide ...
(''Gopherus polyphemus'') *
Desert tortoise The desert tortoise (''Gopherus agassizii''), is a species of tortoise in the Family (biology), family Testudinidae. The species is native to the Mojave Desert, Mojave and Sonoran Deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexic ...
(''Gopherus agassizii'') Family
Cheloniidae Cheloniidae is a family of typically large marine turtles that are characterised by their common traits such as, having a flat streamlined wide and rounded shell and almost paddle-like flippers for their forelimbs. They are the only sea turtles t ...
(sea turtles) *
Loggerhead sea turtle The loggerhead sea turtle (''Caretta caretta'') is a species of oceanic turtle distributed throughout the world. It is a marine reptile, belonging to the family Cheloniidae. The average loggerhead measures around in carapace length when fully ...
(''Caretta caretta'') *
Green sea turtle The green sea turtle (''Chelonia mydas''), also known as the green turtle, black (sea) turtle or Pacific green turtle, is a species of large sea turtle of the family Cheloniidae. It is the only species in the genus ''Chelonia''. Its range exten ...
(''Chelonia mydas'') (Hawaiian subpopulation: ) *
Hawksbill sea turtle The hawksbill sea turtle (''Eretmochelys imbricata'') is a critically endangered sea turtle belonging to the family Cheloniidae. It is the only extant species in the genus ''Eretmochelys''. The species has a global distribution, that is largel ...
(''Eretmochelys imbricata'') *
Kemp's ridley sea turtle Kemp's ridley sea turtle (''Lepidochelys kempii''), also called the Atlantic ridley sea turtle, is the rarest species of sea turtle and is the world's most endangered species of sea turtle. It is one of two living species in the genus '' Lepido ...
(''Lepidochelys kempii'') *
Olive ridley sea turtle The olive ridley sea turtle (''Lepidochelys olivacea''), also known commonly as the Pacific ridley sea turtle, is a species of turtle in the family Cheloniidae. The species is the second-smallest and most abundant of all sea turtles found in th ...
(''Lepidochelys olivacea'') Family
Dermochelyidae Dermochelyidae is a family of turtles which has seven extinct genera and one extant genus, including the largest living sea turtles. Classification of known genera The following list of dermochelyid species was published by Hirayama and Tong in ...
(leatherback sea turtle) *
Leatherback sea turtle The leatherback sea turtle (''Dermochelys coriacea''), sometimes called the lute turtle or leathery turtle or simply the luth, is the largest of all living turtles and the heaviest non-crocodilian reptile, reaching lengths of up to and weights ...
(''Dermochelys coriacea'') (East Pacific Ocean subpopulation - i.e. Hawaiian Is.: , West Pacific Ocean subpopulation: , Northwest Atlantic Ocean subpopulation: ) Family
Trionychidae The Trionychidae are a taxonomic family of a number of turtle genera, commonly known as softshell turtles. The family was erected by Leopold Fitzinger in 1826. Softshells include some of the world's largest freshwater turtles, though many can a ...
(softshells) * Wattle-necked softshell turtle (''Palea steindachneri'') (introduced)


Order

Squamata Squamata (, Latin ''squamatus'', 'scaly, having scales') is the largest order of reptiles, comprising lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians (worm lizards), which are collectively known as squamates or scaled reptiles. With over 10,900 species, ...
(scaled reptiles)

Family
Crotaphytidae The Crotaphytidae, or collared lizards, are a family of desert-dwelling reptiles native to the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Alternatively they are recognized as a subfamily, Crotaphytinae, within the clade Pleurodonta. They are ...
(collared lizards) * Reticulated collared lizard (''Crotaphytus reticulatus'') *
Blunt-nosed leopard lizard ''Gambelia sila'', commonly known as the blunt-nosed leopard lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Crotaphytidae. The species is endemic to southern California. Taxonomy ''Gambelia sila'' was originally described by Leonhard Stejneger in ...
(''Gambelia sila'') Family
Phrynosomatidae The Phrynosomatidae are a diverse family of lizards, sometimes classified as a subfamily (Phrynosomatinae), found from Panama to the extreme south of Canada. Many members of the group are adapted to life in hot, sandy deserts, although the spiny ...
(horned lizards and spiny lizards) * Dunes sagebrush lizard (''Sceloporus arenicolus'') *
Coachella Valley fringe-toed lizard The Coachella Valley fringe-toed lizard (''Uma inornata'') is a species of Phrynosomatidae, phrynosomatid lizard. Phylogeny and evolution The species is most closely related to Uma notata, the Colorado Desert fringe-toed lizard. Genetic variat ...
(''Uma inornata'') Family
Teiidae Teiidae is a family of autarchoglossan lizards native to the Americas. Members of this family are generally known as whiptails or racerunners; however, tegus also belong to this family. Teiidae is sister to the Gymnopthalmidae, and both famili ...
(whiptails) * Little white whiptail (''Aspidoscelis gypsi'') Family Scincidae (skinks) *
Florida sand skink The Florida sand skink (''Plestiodon reynoldsi'') is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae, the skinks. It is endemic to Florida in the United States. Taxonomy and etymology It was described as a new genus and new species by Leonhard St ...
(''Neoseps reynoldsi'') Family Xantusiidae (night lizards) * Sandstone night lizard (''Xantusia gracilis'') Family
Anguidae Anguidae refers to a large and diverse family of lizards native to the Northern Hemisphere. Common characteristics of this group include a reduced supratemporal arch, striations on the medial faces of tooth crowns, osteoderms, and a lateral fold ...
(glass lizards, alligator lizards, and relatives) *
Panamint alligator lizard The Panamint alligator lizard (''Elgaria panamintina'') is a species of lizard in the Anguidae family. Distribution ''Elgaria panamintina'' is endemic to California, from in the desert mountain ranges of Inyo and Mono Counties. They include the ...
(''Elgaria panamintina'') Family
Colubridae Colubridae (, commonly known as colubrids , from la, coluber, 'snake') is a family of snakes. With 249 genera, it is the largest snake family. The earliest species of the family date back to the Oligocene epoch. Colubrid snakes are found on ever ...
(colubrid snakes) * Southern hog-nosed snake (''Heterodon simus'') *
Louisiana pine snake The Louisiana pine snake (''Pituophis ruthveni'') is a species of large, non-venomous, constrictor in the family Colubridae. This powerful snake is notable because of its large eggs and small clutch sizes. The Louisiana pine snake is indige ...
(''Pituophis ruthveni'') * Rim rock crown snake (''Tantilla oolitica'') *
Giant garter snake The giant garter snake (''Thamnophis gigas'') is the largest species of garter snake. Relatively rare, it is a semi-aquatic snake with a limited distribution in the wetlands of central California. Description The giant garter snake is the larges ...
(''Thamnophis gigas'') Family
Pythonidae The Pythonidae, commonly known as pythons, are a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia, and Australia. Among its members are some of the largest snakes in the world. Ten genera and 42 species are currently recognized. Distributi ...
(pythons) *
Indian Python The Indian python (''Python molurus'') is a large python species native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It is also known by the common names black-tailed python, Indian rock python, and Asian r ...
(''Python molurus'') (introduced)


Order

Caudata The Caudata are a group of amphibians containing the extant salamanders (Urodela) and all extinct species of amphibians more closely related to salamanders than to frogs. They are typically characterized by a superficially lizard-like appearance ...
(salamanders)

Family
Proteidae The family Proteidae is a group of aquatic salamanders found today in the Balkan Peninsula and North America. The range of the genus ''Necturus'' (commonly known as waterdogs or mudpuppies) runs from southern central Canada, through the midwe ...
(waterdogs) * Alabama waterdog (''Necturus alabamensis'') Family
Ambystomatidae Ambystomatidae is a family of salamanders belonging to the order Caudata in the class Amphibia. It contains two genera, ''Ambystoma'' (the mole salamanders) and ''Dicamptodon'' (the Pacific giant salamanders). ''Ambystoma'' contains 32 species an ...
(mole salamanders) * Reticulated flatwoods salamander (''Ambystoma bishopi'') *
California tiger salamander The California tiger salamander (''Ambystoma californiense'') is a vulnerable amphibian native to California. It is a mole salamander. Previously considered to be a subspecies of the tiger salamander (''A. tigrinum)'', the California tiger sal ...
(''Ambystoma californiense'') *
Frosted flatwoods salamander The frosted flatwoods salamander (''Ambystoma cingulatum'') is a small (9-13.5 cm total length), elongated species of mole salamander. It has a small, indistinct head, short legs, and a long, rounded tail. Typical coloration consists of ...
(''Ambystoma cingulatum'') Family
Rhyacotritonidae The torrent salamanders or Cascade salamanders are a family of salamanders (Rhyacotritonidae) with only one genus, ''Rhyacotriton''. The torrent salamanders are endemic to the United States in the Pacific Northwest (including northwestern Calif ...
(torrent salamanders) * Olympic torrent salamander (''Rhyacotriton olympicus'') Family
Salamandridae Salamandridae is a family of salamanders consisting of true salamanders and newts. Salamandrids are distinguished from other salamanders by the lack of rib or costal grooves along the sides of their bodies and by their rough skin. Their skin is v ...
(newts) * Black-spotted newt (''Notophthalmus meridionalis'') Family
Plethodontidae Plethodontidae, or lungless salamanders, are a family of salamanders. Most species are native to the Western Hemisphere, from British Columbia to Brazil, although a few species are found in Sardinia, Europe south of the Alps, and South Korea. In ...
(lungless salamanders) *
Inyo Mountains salamander The Inyo Mountains salamander (''Batrachoseps campi'') is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae that is endemic to California in the western United States. Distribution It's specifically endemic to the Inyo Mountains and limited t ...
(''Batrachoseps campi'') * Kings River slender salamander (''Batrachoseps regius'') * Kern Canyon slender salamander (''Batrachoseps simatus'') *
Tehachapi slender salamander The Tehachapi slender salamander (''Batrachoseps stebbinsi'') is a species of Lungless salamander, plethodontid salamander, and one of the larger members of genus ''Batrachoseps''. It is endemic to California, in Kern County, California, Kern Cou ...
(''Batrachoseps stebbinsi'') *
Oregon slender salamander The Oregon slender salamander (''Batrachoseps wrighti'') is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae from the Northwestern United States. Distribution The Oregon slender salamander is endemic to north-central Oregon, found particular ...
(''Batrachoseps wrightorum'') *
Red Hills salamander The Red Hills salamander (''Phaeognathus hubrichti'') is a fairly large, terrestrial salamander growing to about . Its body color is gray to brownish without markings, and its limbs are relatively short. It is the official state amphibian of Alab ...
(''Phaeognathus hubrichti'') * Peaks of Otter salamander (''Plethodon hubrichti'') *
Shenandoah salamander The Shenandoah salamander (''Plethodon shenandoah'') is a small, terrestrial salamander found exclusively in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. The Shenandoah salamander inhabits a very small range of land on just three mountain peaks. Due to ...
(''Plethodon shenandoah'') * Weller's salamander (''Plethodon welleri'') *
Pigeon Mountain salamander The Pigeon Mountain salamander (''Plethodon petraeus'') is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is endemic to Pigeon Mountain in the US state of Georgia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, rocky areas, and caves. It ...
(''Plethodon petraeus'') *
Blue Ridge gray-cheeked salamander The Blue Ridge gray-cheeked salamander (''Plethodon amplus'') is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae endemic to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, United States. It is one of 55 species in the genus ''Plethodon'' and on ...
(''Plethodon amplus'') *
Scott Bar salamander The Scott Bar salamander (''Plethodon asupak'') is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae, endemic to the United States, where it is restricted to a very small range in the Scott River drainage in Siskiyou County, California, at alt ...
(''Plethodon asupak'') *
Cheoah Bald salamander The Cheoah Bald salamander (''Plethodon cheoah'') is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae endemic to the state of North Carolina in the United States. Its natural habitat is temperate forests and it is threatened by habitat loss. ...
(''Plethodon cheoah'') * Fourche Mountain salamander (''Plethodon fourchensis'') * South Mountain gray-cheeked salamander (''Plethodon meridianus'') *
Big Levels salamander The Big Levels salamander (''Plethodon sherando'') is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is endemic to Virginia in the eastern United States. First described in 2004, it derives its specific name, ''sherando'', from Sheran ...
(''Plethodon sherando'') *
Red-legged salamander The red-legged salamander (''Plethodon shermani'') is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. Formerly considered a subspecies of '' Plethodon jordani'', it is native to the mountain forests of the southeastern United States. Descr ...
(''Plethodon shermani'') *
Siskiyou Mountains salamander The Siskiyou Mountains salamander (''Plethodon stormi''), also called the Siskiyou Mountain salamander, exists only in isolated locations along the Klamath River in northern California and southern Oregon. It is a close relative of the Del Norte ...
(''Plethodon stormi'') *
Limestone salamander The limestone salamander (''Hydromantes brunus'') is a member of the lungless salamander family. Discovered in 1952, this species belongs to a genus endemic to California. It is endemic to a portion of the Merced River Canyon in Mariposa County, ...
(''Hydromantes brunus'') * Shasta salamander (''Hydromantes shastae'') * Berry Cave salamander (''Gyrinophilus gulolineatus'') * West Virginia spring salamander (''Gyrinophilus subterraneus'') *
Tennessee cave salamander The Tennessee cave salamander (''Gyrinophilus palleucus'') is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae, endemic to the Appalachian Mountains in the United States. Its natural habitats are streams in caves. It is threatened by habitat ...
(''Gyrinophilus palleucus'') *
Salado Springs salamander The Salado Springs salamander (''Eurycea chisholmensis'') is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is endemic to the vicinity of Salado, Texas. Its natural habitat is freshwater springs. It has been found only from a few sprin ...
(''Eurycea chisholmensis'') * Junaluska salamander (''Eurycea junaluska'') *
Cascade Caverns salamander The Cascade Caverns salamander (''Eurycea latitans''), or Cascade Caverns neotenic salamander, is a species of aquatic salamander endemic to Cascade Caverns in Kendall County, Texas. Like other species of cave salamanders, they are almost entire ...
(''Eurycea latitans'') *
San Marcos salamander The San Marcos salamander (''Eurycea nana'') is a small species of aquatic, lungless salamander native to the United States, endemic to Spring Lake and a small region of the headwaters of the San Marcos River near Aquarena Springs, in Hays Cou ...
(''Eurycea nana'') * Georgetown salamander (''Eurycea naufragia'') *
Texas salamander ''Eurycea neotenes'', also known as the Texas salamander, Bexar County salamander, Edwards Plateau salamander, or Texas neotenic salamander, is a species of entirely aquatic, lungless salamander native to the United States. It is endemic to centr ...
(''Eurycea neotenes'') *
Barton Springs salamander The Barton Springs salamander (''Eurycea sosorum'') is an endangered lungless salamander. It is endemic to Texas, United States. It was first found in Barton Springs in Austin, but is now also known from other localities in the nearby Travis ...
(''Eurycea sosorum'') *
Jollyville Plateau salamander The Jollyville Plateau salamander (''Eurycea tonkawae'') is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is also known as the Tonkawa Springs salamander. It is endemic to Travis and Williamson counties, Texas, United States. This s ...
(''Eurycea tonkawae'') *
Comal blind salamander The Comal blind salamander or Honey Creek Cave blind salamander (''Eurycea tridentifera'') is a small species of aquatic, lungless salamander native to the United States. It is endemic to a small region at the junction of Comal, Bexar and Kend ...
(''Eurycea tridentifera'') *
Texas blind salamander The Texas blind salamander (''Eurycea rathbuni'') is a rare cave-dwelling troglobite amphibian native to San Marcos, Hays County, Texas, specifically the San Marcos Pool of the Edwards Aquifer. Description The species has a broad, flat, snout ...
(''Eurycea rathbuni'') * Austin blind salamander (''Eurycea waterlooensis'') *
Georgia blind salamander The Georgia blind salamander (''Eurycea wallacei'') is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae (the "lungless salamanders"). It is endemic to the south-eastern United States where its natural habitats are inland karsts, caves and su ...
(''Haideotriton wallacei'')


Order Anura (frogs)

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 contains both species commonly called toads, and the true toads from the family Bufonidae {{Cat m ...
(toads) *
Arroyo toad The arroyo toad (''Anaxyrus californicus'') is a species of true toads in the family Bufonidae, endemic to California (U.S.) and Baja California state (México). It is currently classified as an Endangered species on the IUCN Red List of Threate ...
(''Anaxyrus californicus'') *
Yosemite toad The Yosemite toad (''Anaxyrus canorus'', formerly ''Bufo canorus'') is a species of true toad in the family Bufonidae. Endemic to the Sierra Nevada of California, the species ranges from the Alpine County to Fresno County. Yosemite toads are only ...
(''Anaxyrus canorus'') * Black toad (''Anaxyrus exsul'') *
Houston toad The Houston toad (''Anaxyrus houstonensis''), formerly ''Bufo houstonensis'', is an endangered species of amphibian that is endemic to Texas in the United States. This toad was discovered in the late 1940s and named in 1953. It was the first am ...
(''Anaxyrus houstonensis'') *
Amargosa toad The Amargosa toad (''Anaxyrus nelsoni'') is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It was at one time considered to be a subspecies of the western toad. It is threatened by habitat loss and is classified by the IUCN as being "Critically end ...
(''Anaxyrus nelsoni'') Family Ranidae (true frogs) *
Chiricahua leopard frog The Chiricahua leopard frog (''Lithobates chiricahuensis'' syn. ''Rana chiricahuensis'') is a species of frog in the family Ranidae, the true frogs. Distribution and habitat It is native to Mexico and the United States (Arizona and New Mexico) ...
(''Lithobates chiricahuensis'') ** Ramsey Canyon leopard frog (''Lithobates subaquavocalis'') , species not recognized by SSAR *
Florida bog frog The Florida bog frog (''Lithobates okaloosae'') is a rare species of frog found only in western Florida. Distribution The Florida bog frog inhabits a total area of less than 20 km2 (7.7 mi2). It is found in shallow ponds or creeks alon ...
(''Lithobates okaloosae'') *
Relict leopard frog The relict leopard frog (''Lithobates onca'') is a species of frog in the family Ranidae, endemic to the United States. It is found along the Colorado river in extreme northwestern Arizona, and adjacent Nevada and southwestern Utah, although its ...
(''Lithobates onca'') *
Mississippi gopher frog The Mississippi gopher frog (''Lithobates sevosus''), also known commonly as the dark gopher frog, the dusky gopher frog, and the St. Tammany gopher frog, is a critically endangered species of frog in the family Ranidae (true frogs). The speci ...
(''Lithobates sevosus'') * Tarahumara frog (''Lithobates tarahumarae'') *
California red-legged frog The California red-legged frog (''Rana draytonii'') is a species of frog found in California (USA) and northern Baja California (Mexico). It was formerly considered a subspecies of the northern red-legged frog (''Rana aurora''). The frog is an IU ...
(''Rana draytonii'') *
Mountain yellow-legged frog The mountain yellow-legged frog (''Rana muscosa''), also known as the southern mountain yellow-legged frog, is a species of true frog endemic to California in the United States. It occurs in the San Jacinto Mountains, San Bernardino Mountains, a ...
(''Rana muscosa'') *
Oregon spotted frog The Oregon spotted frog (''Rana pretiosa'', meaning "precious frog") is a member of the frog family Ranidae of order Anura. It is a medium-sized aquatic frog endemic to the Pacific Northwest and historically well distributed in the Puget Trough/ ...
(''Rana pretiosa'') *
Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog The Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog or Sierra Nevada Mountain yellow-legged frog (''Rana sierrae'') is a true frog endemic to the Sierra Nevada of California and Nevada in the United States. It was formerly considered '' Rana muscosa'' until a 2 ...
(''Rana sierrae'')


See also

* List of North American reptiles * List of North American amphibians


References

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