List of amphibians of India

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This is an index to the amphibians found in India. The amphibians of India show a high level of endemism.[1] This list is based largely on Frost (2006)[2] and includes common names from older books and journals.[3][4][5]

Some Indian frogs

Order Anura[]

Family Bufonidae[]

Family Ceratobatrachidae[]

  • Ingerana charlesdarwini (Das, 1998) =Rana charlesdarwini

Family Dicroglossidae[]

Dicroglossinae[]

  • Common skittering frog Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis (Schneider, 1799)
  • Euphlyctis ghoshi (Chanda, 1991)
  • Indian Five-fingered Frog Euphlyctis hexadactylus (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 (Peters, 1871)
  • Fejervarya cancrivora (Gravenhorst, 1829)
  • Fejervarya greenii (Boulenger, 1905)
  • Fejervarya keralensis (Dubois, 1981)
  • Alpine cricket frog Fejervarya limnocharis (Gravenhorst, 1829)
  • Fejervarya murthii (Pillai, 1979)
  • Fejervarya mysorensis (Rao, 1922)
  • Fejervarya nicobariensis (Stoliczka, 1870)
  • Fejervarya nepalensis (Iskandar, 1998)
  • Fejervarya nilagirica (Jerdon, 1854)
  • Fejervarya orissaensis (Dutta, 1997)
  • Fejervarya parambikulamana (Rao, 1937)
  • Fejervarya rufescens (Jerdon, 1854)
  • Fejervarya sauriceps (Rao, 1937)
  • Fejervarya syhadrensis = Limnonectes syhadrensis (Annandale, 1919)
  • Fejervarya teraiensis (Dubois, 1984)
  • Jerdon's Bullfrog Hoplobatrachus crassus (Jerdon, 1854)
  • Indian Bullfrog Hoplobatrachus tigerinus (Daudin, 1802)
  • Limnonectes doriae (Boulenger, 1887)
  • Limnonectes hascheanus (Stoliczka, 1870)
  • Limnonectes khasianus (Anderson, 1871)
  • Limnonectes kuhlii (Tschudi, 1838)
  • Limnonectes laticeps (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Limnonectes limborgi (Sclater, 1892)
  • Limnonectes mawlyndipi (Chanda, 1990)
  • Limnonectes mawphlangensis (Pillai and Chanda, 1977)
  • Limnonectes shompenorum (Das, 1996)
  • Minervarya sahyadris (Dubois, Ohler, and Biju, 2001)
  • Nanorana annandalii = Paa annandalii (Boulenger, 1920)
  • Nanorana arnoldi = Paa arnoldi (Dubois, 1975)
  • Nanorana barmoachensis = Paa barmoachensis (Khan and Tasnim, 1989)
  • Nanorana blanfordii = Paa blanfordii (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Nanorana conaensis = Paa conaensis (Fei and Huang In Huang and Fei, 1981)
  • Nanorana ercepeae = Paa ercepeae (Dubois, 1974)
  • Hazara torrent frog Nanorana hazarensis = Paa hazarensis (Dubois and Khan, 1979)
  • Nanorana liebigii = Paa liebigii (Günther, 1860)
  • Nanorana minica = Paa minica (Dubois, 1975)
  • Nanorana mokokchungensis = Paa mokokchungensis (Das and Chanda, 2000)
  • Nanorana polunini = Paa polunini (Smith, 1951)
  • Nanorana pleskei (Günther, 1896)
  • Karez frog Nanorana sternosignata = Paa sternosignata (Murray, 1885)
  • Murree Hills frog Nanorana vicina = Paa vicina (Stoliczka, 1872)
  • Ombrana sikimensis = Chaparana sikimensis (Jerdon, 1870)
  • Burrowing frog Sphaerotheca breviceps (Schneider, 1799)
  • Sphaerotheca dobsoni (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Sphaerotheca leucorhynchus (Rao, 1937)
  • Marbled Sand Frog Sphaerotheca rolandae (Dubois, 1983)

Occidozyginae[]

  • Occidozyga borealis (Annandale, 1912)
  • Occidozyga lima (Gravenhorst, 1829)
  • Occidozyga sumatrana (Peters, 1877)

Family Hylidae[]

Family Megophryidae[]

Family Micrixalidae[]

Family Microhylidae[]

Family Nyctibatrachidae[]

Family Petropedetidae[]

Family Ranidae[]

Family Rhacophoridae[]

Family Sooglossidae[]

Order Gymnophiona[]

The list of Indian caecilians is based on Giri & Gaikwad (2013) (duly amended):[13]

Family Caeciliidae[]

Gegeneophis spp.


Indotyphlus spp.

Family Chikilidae[]

  • Fuller's caecilian Chikila fulleri (Alcock, 1904) formerly Gegeneophis fulleri[16]
  • Kamei, Gower, Wilkinson & Biju, 2013[17]
  • Kamei, Gower, Wilkinson & Biju, 2013[17]
  • Kamei, Gower, Wilkinson & Biju, 2013[17]

Family Ichthyophiidae[]

Ichthyophis sp. from the Western Ghats
Ichthyophis spp.[18]


Uraeotyphlus spp.

Order Urodela[]

Tylototriton verrucosus

Family Salamandridae[]

References[]

  1. ^ Daniels, R. J. R. (2001). "Endemic fishes of the Western Ghats and the Satpura hypothesis" (PDF). Current Science. 81 (3): 240–244.
  2. ^ Frost, Darrel R. 2006. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 4 (17 August 2006). Electronic Database accessible at "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-10-24. Retrieved 2007-11-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link). American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.
  3. ^ R. J. Ranjit Daniels (2005) Amphibians of Peninsular India. Universities Press.
  4. ^ Shyamal Kumar Chanda, Indraneil Das and Alain Dubois (2000) Catalogue of amphibian types in the collection of the Zoological Survey of India. Hamadryad 25(2):100–128 PDF Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Sclater, WL (1892) List of the Batrachia in the Indian museum. scan
  6. ^ Biju, S. D. et al. (2007) A new nightfrog Nyctibatrachus minimus sp. nov. (Anura: Nyctibatrachidae): The smallest frog from India. Current Science Vol. 93, No. 6: 854-858
  7. ^ Radhakrishnan, C., K.P. Dinesh & M. S. Ravichandran (2007) A new species of Nyctibatrachus Boulenger (Amphibia: Anura: Nyctibatrachidae) from the Eravikulam National Park, Kerala, India. Zootaxa 1595: 31–41 PDF
  8. ^ Dinesh, KP, Radhakrishnan C & Gopalakrishna Bhatta (2008) A new species of Nyctibatrachus Boulenger (Amphibia: Anura: Nyctibatrachidae) from the surroundings of Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats, India, Zootaxa 1914: 45–56
  9. ^ S.D. Biju, Kim Roelants, Franky Bossuyt (2008) Phylogenetic position of the montane treefrog Polypedates variabilis Jerdon, 1853 (Anura:Rhacophoridae), and description of a related species. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution 8:267–276
  10. ^ Gururaja, KV and Aravind, NA and Ali, S and Ramachandra, TV and Velavan, TP and Krishnakumar, V and Aggarwal, RK (2007) A New Frog Species from the Central Western Ghats of India, and Its Phylogenetic Position. Zoological Science 24:pp. 525-534. Text
  11. ^ Gururaja, KV and Dinesh, KP and Palot, MJ and Radhakrishnan, C and Ramachandra, TV (2007) A new species of Raorchestes Gistel (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from southern Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa 1621:pp. 1-16. PDF
  12. ^ Purkayastha, Jayaditya; Das, Madhurima; Mondal, Kingshuk; Mitra, Shibajee; Chaudhuri, Anirban; Das, Indraneil (2019). "A new species of Polypedates Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from West Bengal State, Eastern India". Zootaxa. 4691 (5): 525–540. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4691.5.6.
  13. ^ Giri, V.B. & Gaikwad, K.S. (2013). Towards the conservation of caecilian amphibians of the northern Western Ghats – establishing the systematic foundation. Mumbai: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 53.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  14. ^ Gopalakrishna Bhatta & R. Srinivasa (2004) A new species of Gegeneophis Peters (Amphibia: Gymnophiona:Caeciliidae) from the surroundings of Mookambika Wildlife Sanctuary, Karnataka, India. Zootaxa 644: 1–8 PDF
  15. ^ Gopalakrishna Bhatta and P. Prashanth (2004) Gegeneophis nadkarnii – a caecilian (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats Current Science, 87(3):10 PDF
  16. ^ Kamei, R. G.; Mauro, D. S.; Gower, D. J.; Van Bocxlaer, I.; Sherratt, E.; Thomas, A.; Babu, S.; Bossuyt, F.; Wilkinson, M.; Biju, S. D. (2012-02-22). "Discovery of a new family of amphibians from northeast India with ancient links to Africa". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 279 (1737): 2396–2401. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.0150. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 3350690. PMID 22357266.
  17. ^ Jump up to: a b c Kamei, R. G.; Gower, D. J.; Wilkinson, M.; Biju, S. D. (2013-06-04). "Systematics of the caecilian family Chikilidae (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) with the description of three new species of Chikila from northeast India". Zootaxa. 3666 (4): 401. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3666.4.1. ISSN 1175-5334.
  18. ^ Three spp 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 Gower, D.J.; Dharne, M.; Bhatta, G.; Giri, V.; Vyas, R.; Govindappa, V.; Oommen, O.V.; George, J.; Shouche, Y. & Wilkinson, M. (2007). "Remarkable genetic homogeneity in unstriped, long-tailed Ichthyophis along 1500 km of the Western Ghats, India". Journal of Zoology. 272 (3): 266–275. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.2006.00266.x. ISSN 0952-8369.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

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