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List of amphibians of India

Family Bufonidae

  • Ornate Torrent Toad Ansonia ornata = Ghatophryne ornata (Günther, 1876)
  • Silent Valley Torrent Toad Ansonia ornata = Ghatophryne rubigina (Pillai and Pattabiraman, 1981)
  • Bufo beddomii (Günther, 1876)
  • Bufo brevirostris (Rao, 1937)
  • Bufo burmanus (Andersson, 1939)
  • Duttaphrynus cyphosus = Bufo cyphosus (Ye, 1977)
  • Himalayan Toad Duttaphrynus himalayanus (Günther, 1864) =Bufo himalayanus (Günther, 1864)
  • Bufo hololius (Günther, 1876)
  • Xanthophryne koynayensis (Soman, 1963)
  • Xanthophryne tigerina 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 (Boulenger, 1882) = Bufo microtympanum (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Ingerophrynus macrotis (Boulenger, 1887)
  • Bufo parietalis (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Ferguson's Toad Bufo scaber (Schneider, 1799)
  • Bufo silentvalleyensis (Pillai, 1981)
  • Bufo stomaticus (Lütken, 1864)
  • Green Toad Bufo viridis
  • Bufo stuarti (Smith, 1929)
  • Bufoides meghalayanus (Yazdani and Chanda, 1971)
  • Pedostibes kempi (Boulenger, 1919)
  • Pedostibes tuberculosus (Günther, 1876)
  • Family Ceratobatrachidae

  • Ingerana charlesdarwini (Das, 1998) =Rana charlesdarwini
  • Dicroglossinae

  • Common skittering frog Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis (Schneider, 1799)
  • Euphlyctis ghoshi (Chanda, 1991)
  • Indian Five-fingered Frog Euphlyctis hexadactylus (Lesson, 1834)
  • 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

  • Hyla annectans (Jerdon, 1870)
  • Family Megophryidae

  • Hasselt's Toad Leptobrachium hasseltii (Tschudi, 1838)
  • Leptobrachium smithi (Matsui, Nabhitabhata, and Panha, 1999)
  • Scutiger boulengeri (Bedriaga, 1898)
  • Scutiger gongshanensis (Yang and Su In Yang, Su, and Li, 1979)
  • Nyingchi Alpine Toad Scutiger nyingchiensis (Fei, 1977)
  • Sikkim Alpine Toad Scutiger sikimmensis (Blyth, 1855)
  • Xenophrys boettgeri (Boulenger, 1899)
  • Xenophrys kempii (Annandale, 1912)
  • Xenophrys major (Boulenger, 1908)
  • Xenophrys parva (Boulenger, 1893)
  • Xenophrys robusta (Boulenger, 1908)
  • Xenophrys wuliangshanensis
  • Family Micrixalidae

  • Micrixalus elegans (Rao, 1937)
  • Micrixalus fuscus (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Micrixalus gadgili Pillai and Pattabiraman, 1990
  • Micrixalus kottigeharensis (Rao, 1937)
  • Micrixalus narainensis (Rao, 1937)
  • Micrixalus nudis Pillai, 1978
  • Micrixalus phyllophilus (Jerdon, 1854)
  • Micrixalus saxicola (Jerdon, 1854)
  • Micrixalus silvaticus (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Micrixalus swamianus (Rao, 1937)
  • Micrixalus thampii (Pillai, 1981)
  • Family Microhylidae

  • Kalophrynus interlineatus (Blyth, 1855) = Kalophrynus orangensis (Dutta, Ahmed, and Das, 2000)
  • Micryletta inornata (Boulenger, 1890)
  • Ramanella anamalaiensis (Rao, 1937)
  • Ramanella minor (Rao, 1937)
  • Ramanella montana (Jerdon, 1854)
  • Ramanella mormorata (Rao, 1937)
  • Ramanella triangularis (Günther, 1876)
  • White-bellied pug-snout frog Ramanella variegata (Stoliczka, 1872)
  • Uperodon globulosus (Günther, 1864)
  • Marbled balloon frog Uperodon systoma (Schneider, 1799)
  • Melanobatrachus indicus (Beddome, 1878)
  • Kaloula baleata (Müller In Oort and Müller, 1833)
  • Painted Frog Kaloula pulchra (Gray, 1831)
  • Kaloula assamensis (Das, Sengupta, Ahmed, and Dutta, 2005)
  • Sri Lankan Bullfrog Kaloula taprobanica (Parker, 1934)
  • Microhyla berdmorei (Blyth, 1856)
  • Microhyla chakrapanii (Pillai, 1977)
  • Microhyla heymonsi (Vogt, 1911)
  • Ornate Narrow-Mouthed Toad Microhyla ornata (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)
  • Microhyla pulchra (Hallowell, 1861)
  • Microhyla rubra (Jerdon, 1854)
  • Microhyla sholigari (Dutta and Ray, 2000)
  • Microhyla laterite Seshadri et al., 2016
  • Family Nyctibatrachidae

  • Nyctibatrachus aliciae (Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984)
  • Nyctibatrachus beddomii (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Nyctibatrachus deccanensis (Dubois, 1984)
  • Nyctibatrachus humayuni (Bhaduri and Kripalani, 1955)
  • Nyctibatrachus hussaini (Krishnamurthy, Reddy, and Gururaja, 2001)
  • Nyctibatrachus kempholeyensis (Rao, 1937)
  • Nyctibatrachus major (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Nyctibatrachus minor (Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984)
  • 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 Dinesh K P, Radhakrishnan C & Gopalakrishna Bhatta, 2008
  • Family Petropedetidae

  • Indirana beddomii (Günther, 1876)
  • Indirana brachytarsus (Günther, 1876)
  • Indirana diplosticta (Günther, 1876)
  • Indirana gundia (Dubois, 1986)
  • Indirana leithii (Boulenger, 1888)
  • Indirana leptodactyla (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Indirana longicrus (Rao, 1937)
  • Indirana phrynoderma (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Indirana semipalmata (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Indirana tenuilingua (Rao, 1937)
  • Family Ranidae

  • Amolops chakrataensis (Ray, 1992)
  • Amolops formosus (Günther, 1876)
  • Amolops gerbillus (Annandale, 1912)
  • Amolops himalayanus (Boulenger, 1888)
  • Amolops jaunsari (Ray, 1992)
  • Amolops marmoratus (Blyth, 1855)
  • Amolops monticola (Anderson, 1871)
  • Amolops viridimaculatus (Jiang, 1983)
  • Bicolored Frog Clinotarsus curtipes (Jerdon, 1854)
  • Huia chloronota (Günther, 1876)
  • Humerana humeralis (Boulenger, 1887)
  • Fungoid Frog Hydrophylax malabaricus (Tschudi, 1838)
  • Hydrophylax bahuvistara
  • Hydrophylax raniceps (Peters, 1871)
  • Pterorana khare (Kiyasetuo and Khare, 1986)
  • Hylarana tytleri (Theobald, 1868)
  • Nasirana alticola (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Golden frog Hylarana aurantiaca (Boulenger, 1904)
  • Hylarana chitwanensis (Das, 1998)
  • Boulenger's Garo Hill Frog Hylarana garoensis (Boulenger, 1920 )
  • Hylarana leptoglossa (Cope, 1868)
  • Hylarana nigrovittata (Blyth, 1856)
  • Bronzed Frog Hylarana temporalis (Günther, 1864)
  • Family Rhacophoridae

  • Chiromantis cherrapunjiae = Chirixalus cherrapunjiae (Roonwal and Kripalani, 1966)
  • Chiromantis doriae = Chirixalus doriae (Boulenger, 1893)
  • Chiromantis dudhwaensis = Chirixalus dudhwaensis (Ray, 1992)
  • Chiromantis shyamrupus = Chirixalus shyamrupus (Chanda and Ghosh, 1989)
  • Chiromantis simus = Chirixalus simus (Annandale, 1915)
  • Chiromantis vittatus = Chirixalus vittatus (Boulenger, 1887)
  • Ghatixalus variabilis (Jerdon, 1853)
  • Nyctixalus moloch (Annandale, 1912)
  • Kurixalus verrucosus = Rhacophorus verrucosus (Boulenger, 1893)
  • Aquixalus bisacculus = Rhacophorus bisacculus (Taylor, 1962)
  • Aquixalus naso = Polypedates naso (Annandale, 1912)
  • Philautus andersoni (Ahl, 1927)
  • Philautus anili (Biju and Bossuyt, 2006)
  • Philatus luteolus (Kuramoto and Joshy, 2003)
  • Philatus tuberohumerus (Kuramoto and Joshy, 2003)
  • Philautus annandalii (Boulenger, 1906)
  • Philautus beddomii (Günther, 1876)
  • Philautus bobingeri (Biju and Bossuyt, 2005)
  • Philautus bombayensis (Annandale, 1919)
  • Philautus chalazodes (Günther, 1876)
  • Philautus charius (Rao, 1937)
  • Philautus dubius (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Philautus femoralis Round-snout pygmy frog (Günther, 1864)
  • Philautus flaviventris (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Philautus garo (Boulenger, 1919)
  • Philautus glandulosus (Jerdon, 1854)
  • Philautus graminirupes (Biju & Bossuyt, 2005)
  • Philautus griet (Bossuyt, 2002)
  • Philautus jerdonii (Günther, 1876)
  • Philautus kempiae (Boulenger, 1919)
  • Philautus luteolus = Philautus neelanethrus Gururaja et al.', 2007
  • Philautus microdiscus (Annandale, 1912)
  • Philautus namdaphaensis (Sarkar and Sanyal, 1985)
  • Philautus nasutus Sharp-snout pygmy tree frog
  • Philautus nerostagona
  • Philautus ochlandrae Gururaja et al., 2007.
  • Philautus ponmudi
  • Philautus sanctisilvaticus (Das and Chanda, 1997)
  • Philautus shillongensis (Pillai and Chanda, 1973)
  • Philautus signatus (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Philautus similipalensis (Dutta, 2003)
  • Philautus terebrans (Das and Chanda, 1998)
  • Philautus tinniens (Jerdon, 1854)
  • Philautus travancoricus (Boulenger, 1891)
  • Philautus tuberohumerus
  • Philautus wynaadensis (Jerdon, 1854)
  • Polypedates gongshanensis
  • Polypedates insularis (Das, 1995)
  • Polypedates leucomystax (Gravenhorst, 1829)
  • Polypedates maculatus (Gray, 1833) Chunam Frog
  • Polypedates megacephalus (Hallowell, 1861)
  • Polypedates pseudocruciger (Das and Ravichandran, 1998)
  • Polypedates taeniatus (Boulenger, 1906)
  • Rhacophorus appendiculatus (Günther, 1858)
  • Rhacophorus bipunctatus (Ahl, 1927)
  • Rhacophorus calcadensis (Ahl, 1927)
  • Rhacophorus lateralis (Boulenger, 1883)
  • Rhacophorus malabaricus (Jerdon, 1870)Malabar Flying Frog
  • Rhacophorus maximus (Günther, 1858)
  • Rhacophorus namdaphaensis (Sarkar and Sanyal, 1985)
  • Rhacophorus pseudomalabaricus (Vasudevan and Dutta, 2000)
  • Rhacophorus tuberculatus (Anderson, 1871)
  • Rhacophorus variabilis (Jerdon, 1854)
  • Rhacophorus htunwini (Wilkinson, Thin, Lwin, and Shein, 2005)
  • Rhacophorus translineatus (Wu In Sichuan Institute of Biology Herpetology Department, 1977)
  • Rhacophorus kio (Ohler and Delorme, 2006)
  • Theloderma asperum (Boulenger, 1886)
  • Family Sooglossidae

  • Purple Frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis) (Biju and Bossuyt, 2003)
  • Order Gymnophiona

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

    Family Caeciliidae

    Gegeneophis spp.
  • Gegeneophis carnosus (Beddome, 1870)
  • Amboli caecilian Gegeneophis danieli Giri, Gower and Wilkinson 2003
  • Gegeneophis goaensis Bhatta, Dinesh, Prashanth & Kulkarni, 2007
  • Gegeneophis krishni Pillai and Ravichandran, 1999
  • Gegeneophis madhavai Bhatta and Srinivasa, 2004
  • Gegeneophis mhadeiensis Bhatta, Dinesh, Prashanth & Kulkarni, 2007
  • Gegeneophis nadkarnii Bhatta and Prashanth, 2004
  • Gegeneophis pareshi Giri, Gower, Gaikwad & Wilkinson, 2011
  • Gegeneophis primus Kotharambath, Gower, Oomen & Wilkinson, 2012
  • Forest Caecilian Gegeneophis ramaswamii Taylor, 1964
  • Gegeneophis seshachari Ravichandran, Gower, and Wilkinson, 2003
  • Indotyphlus spp.
  • Indotyphlus battersbyi Taylor, 1960
  • Maharashtra caecilian Indotyphlus maharashtraensis Giri, Wilkinson, and Gower, 2003
  • Family Chikilidae

  • Fuller's caecilian Chikila 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 spp.
  • Ichthyophis alfredii Mathew & Sen, 2009
  • Ichthyophis beddomei Peters, 1880
  • Ichthyophis bombayensis Taylor, 1960
  • Ichthyophis daribokensis Mathew & Sen 2009
  • Ichthyophis garoensis Pillai and Ravichandran, 1999
  • Ichthyophis davidi Bhatta, Dinesh, Kulkarni, Radhakrishnan 2011
  • Ichthyophis husaini Pillai and Ravichandran, 1999
  • Ichthyophis kodaguensis Wilkinson, Gower, Govindappa & Venkatachalaiah, 2007
  • Ichthyophis khumhzi 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 Annandale, 1909
  • Uraeotyphlus 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 oomeni Gower & Wilkinson, 2007
  • Uraeotyphlus oxyurus (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)
  • Family Salamandridae

  • Himalayan Newt Tylototriton verrucosus (Anderson, 1871)
  • References

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