List of least concern amphibians

As of September 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 2458 least concern amphibian species.[1] 38% of all evaluated amphibian species are listed as least concern. No subpopulations of amphibians have been evaluated by the IUCN.

545 critically endangered amphibian species (8.4%)848 endangered amphibian species (13%)670 vulnerable amphibian species (10%)402 near threatened amphibian species (6.2%)2458 least concern amphibian species (38%)1567 data deficient amphibian species (24%)
Amphibian species (IUCN, 2016-2)
  • 6492 extant species have been evaluated
  • 4925 of those are fully assessed[lower-alpha 1]
  • 2860 are not threatened at present[lower-alpha 2]
  • 2063 to 3630 are threatened[lower-alpha 3]
  • 35 to 148 are extinct or extinct in the wild:
    • 33 extinct (EX) species[lower-alpha 4]
    • 2 extinct in the wild (EW)
    • 113 possibly extinct [CR(PE)]
    • 0 possibly extinct in the wild [CR(PEW)]
  1. excludes data deficient evaluations.
  2. NT and LC.
  3. Threatened comprises CR, EN and VU. Upper estimate additionally includes DD.
  4. Chart omits extinct (EX) species

This is a complete list of least concern amphibian species evaluated by the IUCN.

Salamanders

There are 162 salamander species assessed as least concern.

Lungless salamanders
  • Sacramento Mountain salamander (Aneides hardii)
  • Arboreal salamander (Aneides lugubris)
  • California slender salamander (Batrachoseps attenuatus)
  • Gabilan Mountains slender salamander (Batrachoseps gavilanensis)
  • Gregarious slender salamander (Batrachoseps gregarius)
  • Santa Lucia Mountains slender salamander (Batrachoseps luciae)
  • Garden slender salamander (Batrachoseps major)
  • Black-bellied slender salamander (Batrachoseps nigriventris)
  • Channel Islands slender salamander (Batrachoseps pacificus)
  • Peter's climbing salamander (Bolitoglossa adspersa)
  • Alberch's salamander (Bolitoglossa alberchi)
  • Nauta salamander (Bolitoglossa altamazonica)
  • Two-lined climbing salamander (Bolitoglossa biseriata)
  • Millville climbing salamander (Bolitoglossa cerroensis)
  • La Loma salamander (Bolitoglossa colonnea)
  • Ecuadorian climbing salamander (Bolitoglossa equatoriana)
  • Paramo Frontino salamander (Bolitoglossa hypacra)
  • Mexican climbing salamander (Bolitoglossa mexicana)
  • Cope's climbing salamander (Bolitoglossa morio)
  • San Gil climbing salamander (Bolitoglossa nicefori)
  • Southern banana salamander (Bolitoglossa occidentalis)
  • Peru mushroomtongue salamander (Bolitoglossa peruviana)
  • Ramos' mushroomtongue salamander (Bolitoglossa ramosi)
  • Robust climbing salamander (Bolitoglossa robusta)
  • Northern banana salamander (Bolitoglossa rufescens)
  • Cocle salamander (Bolitoglossa schizodactyla)
  • Cukra climbing salamander (Bolitoglossa striatula)
  • Yarumal climbing salamander (Bolitoglossa vallecula)
  • Yucatán mushroomtongue salamander (Bolitoglossa yucatana)
  • Apalachicola dusky salamander (Desmognathus apalachicolae)
  • Southern dusky salamander (Desmognathus auriculatus)
  • Ouachita dusky salamander (Desmognathus brimleyorum)
  • Carolina mountain dusky salamander (Desmognathus carolinensis)
  • Dusky salamander (Desmognathus fuscus)
  • Imitator salamander (Desmognathus imitator)
  • Shovelnose salamander (Desmognathus marmoratus)
  • Seal salamander (Desmognathus monticola)
  • Allegheny Mountain dusky salamander (Desmognathus ochrophaeus)
  • Ocoee salamander (Desmognathus ocoee)
  • Blue Ridge dusky salamander (Desmognathus orestes)
  • Blackbelly salamander (Desmognathus quadramaculatus)
  • Santeetlah dusky salamander (Desmognathus santeetlah)
  • Black mountain salamander (Desmognathus welteri)
  • Pygmy salamander (Desmognathus wrighti)
  • Eschscholtz salamander (Ensatina eschscholtzii)
  • Northern two-lined salamander (Eurycea bislineata)
  • Southern two-lined salamander (Eurycea cirrigera)
  • Three-lined salamander (Eurycea guttolineata)
  • Longtail salamander (Eurycea longicauda)
  • Spotted-tail salamander (Eurycea lucifuga)
  • Many-ribbed salamander (Eurycea multiplicata)
  • Dwarf salamander (Eurycea quadridigitata)
  • Grotto salamander (Eurycea spelaea)
  • Blue Ridge two-lined salamander (Eurycea wilderae)
  • Spring salamander (Gyrinophilus porphyriticus)
  • Four-toed salamander (Hemidactylium scutatum)
  • Mount Lyell salamander (Hydromantes platycephalus)
  • Korean crevice salamander (Karsenia koreana)
  • Nototriton abscondens
  • Oedipina alleni
  • Gamboa worm salamander (Oedipina complex)
  • Costa Rica worm salamander (Oedipina cyclocauda)
  • Central American worm salamander (Oedipina elongata)
  • Oedipina pacificensis
  • Colombian worm salamander (Oedipina parvipes)
  • Taylor's worm salamander (Oedipina taylori)
  • Western slimy salamander (Plethodon albagula)
  • Ozark zigzag salamander (Plethodon angusticlavius)
  • Red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus)
  • White-spotted slimy salamander (Plethodon cylindraceus)
  • Northern zigzag salamander (Plethodon dorsalis)
  • Dunn's salamander (Plethodon dunni)
  • Northern ravine salamander (Plethodon electromorphus)
  • Northern slimy salamander (Plethodon glutinosus)
  • Valley and ridge salamander (Plethodon hoffmani)
  • Coeur d'Alene salamander (Plethodon idahoensis)
  • Cumberland Plateau salamander (Plethodon kentucki)
  • Louisiana slimy salamander (Plethodon kisatchie)
  • Southern gray-cheeked salamander (Plethodon metcalfi)
  • Northern gray-cheeked salamander (Plethodon montanus)
  • Ravine salamander (Plethodon richmondi)
  • Southern red-backed salamander (Plethodon serratus)
  • Southern Appalachian salamander (Plethodon teyahalee)
  • Van Dyke's salamander (Plethodon vandykei)
  • Western redback salamander (Plethodon vehiculum)
  • Southern zigzag salamander (Plethodon ventralis)
  • Webster's salamander (Plethodon websteri)
  • Wehrle's salamander (Plethodon wehrlei)
  • Yonahlossee salamander (Plethodon yonahlossee)
  • Pseudoeurycea mixteca
  • Mud salamander (Pseudotriton montanus)
  • Red salamander (Pseudotriton ruber)
  • Many-lined salamander (Stereochilus marginatus)
  • Patch-nosed salamander (Urspelerpes brucei)

Asiatic salamanders
  • Hida salamander (Hynobius kimurae)
  • Korean salamander (Hynobius leechii)
  • Tohoku salamander (Hynobius lichenatus)
  • Blotched salamander (Hynobius naevius)
  • Hynobius nebulosus
  • Japanese black salamander (Hynobius nigrescens)
  • Ezo salamander (Hynobius retardatus)
  • Tsushima salamander (Hynobius tsuensis)
  • Hynobius yatsui
  • Fischer's clawed salamander (Onychodactylus fischeri)
  • Japanese clawed salamander (Onychodactylus japonicus)
  • Siberian salamander (Salamandrella keyserlingii)

Mole salamanders
  • Ringed salamander (Ambystoma annulatum)
  • Northwestern salamander (Ambystoma gracile)
  • Jefferson salamander (Ambystoma jeffersonianum)
  • Blue-spotted salamander (Ambystoma laterale)
  • Mabee's salamander (Ambystoma mabeei)
  • Long-toed salamander (Ambystoma macrodactylum)
  • Spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum)
  • Barred tiger salamander (Ambystoma mavortium)
  • Marbled salamander (Ambystoma opacum)
  • Tarahumara salamander (Ambystoma rosaceum)
  • Mole salamander (Ambystoma talpoideum)
  • Small-mouth salamander (Ambystoma texanum)
  • Tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum)
  • Plateau tiger salamander (Ambystoma velasci)
  • Idaho giant salamander (Dicamptodon aterrimus)
  • Cope's giant salamander (Dicamptodon copei)
  • Coastal giant salamander (Dicamptodon tenebrosus)

Salamandrids

True salamanders and newts

  • Japanese fire belly newt (Cynops pyrrhogaster)
  • Corsican brook salamander (Euproctus montanus)
  • Chuxiong fire-bellied newt (Hypselotriton cyanurus)
  • Oriental fire-bellied newt (Hypselotriton orientalis)
  • Alpine newt (Ichthyosaura alpestris)
  • Bosca's newt (Lissotriton boscai)
  • Palmate newt (Lissotriton helveticus)
  • Italian newt (Lissotriton italicus)
  • Carpathian newt (Lissotriton montandoni)
  • Smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris)
  • Eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens)
  • Southern banded newt (Ommatotriton vittatus)
  • Spotted paddle-tail newt (Pachytriton brevipes)
  • Paddletail newt (Pachytriton labiatus)
  • Chinese warty newt (Paramesotriton chinensis)
  • Alpine salamander (Salamandra atra)
  • Corsican fire salamander (Salamandra corsica)
  • Fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra)
  • Northern spectacled salamander (Salamandrina perspicillata)
  • Spectacled salamander (Salamandrina terdigitata)
  • Rough-skinned newt (Taricha granulosa)
  • Red-bellied newt (Taricha rivularis)
  • Sierra newt (Taricha sierra)
  • California newt (Taricha torosa)
  • Italian crested newt (Triturus carnifex)
  • Northern crested newt (Triturus cristatus)
  • Southern crested newt (Triturus karelinii)
  • Marbled newt (Triturus marmoratus)
  • Himalayan newt (Tylototriton verrucosus)

Proteids
  • Gulf Coast waterdog (Necturus beyeri)
  • Common mudpuppy (Necturus maculosus)
  • Dwarf waterdog (Necturus punctatus)

Torrent salamanders
  • Southern torrent salamander (Rhyacotriton variegatus)

Amphiumids

Sirenids
  • Southern dwarf siren (Pseudobranchus axanthus)
  • Northern dwarf siren (Pseudobranchus striatus)
  • Lesser siren (Siren intermedia)
  • Greater siren (Siren lacertina)

Frogs

There are 2244 frog species assessed as least concern.

Robber frogs

Shrub frogs

Cryptic forest frogs

Rain frogs
  • Strawberry rain frog (Breviceps acutirostris)
  • Breviceps adspersus
  • Breviceps fichus
  • Black rain frog (Breviceps fuscus)
  • Mountain rain frog (Breviceps montanus)
  • Mozambique rain frog (Breviceps mossambicus)
  • Namaqua rain frog (Breviceps namaquensis)
  • Power's Rain Frog (Breviceps poweri)
  • Rose's rain frog (Breviceps rosei)
  • Whistling rain frog (Breviceps sopranus)
  • Plaintive rain frog (Breviceps verrucosus)
  • Krefft's warty frog (Callulina kreffti)
  • Spelaeophryne methneri

True toads

Fleshbelly frogs

Glass frogs

Litter frogs

Screeching frogs

Hemiphractids

Cycloramphids

Poison dart frogs

Mantellids

Ceratobatrachids

Fork-tongued frogs

Alytids

Narrow-mouthed frogs

True frogs

Australian water frogs
  • Sandhill frog (Arenophryne rotunda)
  • Pouched frog (Assa darlingtoni)
  • Bilingual frog (Crinia bilingua)
  • Desert froglet (Crinia deserticola)
  • Quacking frog (Crinia georgiana)
  • Glauert's froglet (Crinia glauerti)
  • Sign-bearing froglet (Crinia insignifera)
  • Moss froglet (Crinia nimbus)
  • Eastern sign-bearing froglet (Crinia parinsignifera)
  • False western froglet (Crinia pseudinsignifera)
  • Remote froglet (Crinia remota)
  • Streambank froglet (Crinia riparia)
  • Common eastern froglet (Crinia signifera)
  • Small western froglet (Crinia subinsignifera)
  • Tasmanian froglet (Crinia tasmaniensis)
  • Smooth froglet (Geocrinia laevis)
  • Lea's frog (Geocrinia leai)
  • Karri frog (Geocrinia rosea)
  • Eastern smooth frog (Geocrinia victoriana)
  • Nicholl's toadlet (Metacrinia nichollsi)
  • Mixophyes carbinensis
  • Mixophyes coggeri
  • Great barred frog (Mixophyes fasciolatus)
  • Northern barred frog (Mixophyes schevilli)
  • Turtle frog (Myobatrachus gouldii)
  • Haswell's frog (Paracrinia haswelli)
  • Red-backed toadlet (Pseudophryne coriacea)
  • Dendy's toadlet (Pseudophryne dendyi)
  • Douglas' toad (Pseudophryne douglasi)
  • Günther's toadlet (Pseudophryne guentheri)
  • Large toadlet (Pseudophryne major)
  • Orange-crowned toadlet (Pseudophryne occidentalis)
  • Copper-backed brood frog (Pseudophryne raveni)
  • Pseudophryne semimarmorata
  • Montane toadlet (Uperoleia altissima)
  • Derby toadlet (Uperoleia aspera)
  • Northern toadlet (Uperoleia borealis)
  • Small-headed toadlet (Uperoleia capitulata)
  • Fat toadlet (Uperoleia crassa)
  • Dusky toadlet (Uperoleia fusca)
  • Glandular toadlet (Uperoleia glandulosa)
  • Flood plain toadlet (Uperoleia inundata)
  • Smooth toadlet (Uperoleia laevigata)
  • Stonemason's toadlet (Uperoleia lithomoda)
  • Littlejohn's toadlet (Uperoleia littlejohni)
  • Tanami toadlet (Uperoleia micromeles)
  • Mimic toadlet (Uperoleia mimula)
  • Small toadlet (Uperoleia minima)
  • Mjoberg's toadlet (Uperoleia mjobergii)
  • Wrinkled toadlet (Uperoleia rugosa)
  • Russell's toadlet (Uperoleia russelli)
  • Mole toadlet (Uperoleia talpa)
  • Blacksoil toadlet (Uperoleia trachyderma)

Puddle frogs

Hylids

Includes tree frog species and their allies.

African reed frogs

Tongueless frogs
  • Congo dwarf clawed frog (Hymenochirus boettgeri)
  • Western dwarf clawed frog (Hymenochirus curtipes)
  • Arrabal's Suriname toad (Pipa arrabali)
  • Albina Suriname toad (Pipa aspera)
  • Carvalho's Suriname toad (Pipa carvalhoi)
  • Sabana Suriname toad (Pipa parva)
  • Common Suriname toad (Pipa pipa)
  • Utinga Suriname toad (Pipa snethlageae)
  • Merlin's dwarf gray frog (Pseudhymenochirus merlini)
  • Andre's clawed frog (Xenopus andrei)
  • Marsabit clawed frog (Xenopus borealis)
  • Eritrea clawed frog (Xenopus clivii)
  • Cameroon clawed frog (Xenopus epitropicalis)
  • Fraser's clawed frog (Xenopus fraseri)
  • African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis)
  • Müller's platanna (Xenopus muelleri)
  • Peters' platanna (Xenopus petersii)
  • Bouchia clawed frog (Xenopus pygmaeus)
  • Western clawed frog (Xenopus tropicalis)
  • Kivu clawed frog (Xenopus vestitus)
  • Lake Victoria clawed frog (Xenopus victorianus)
  • De Witte's clawed frog (Xenopus wittei)

Pyxicephalids
  • Angola river frog (Amietia angolensis)
  • Amietia desaegeri
  • Sani pass frog (Amietia dracomontana)
  • Cape river frog (Amietia fuscigula)
  • Natal Drakensberg frog (Amietia hymenopus)
  • Amietia vandijki
  • Molo frog (Amietia wittei)
  • Hewitt's moss frog (Anhydrophryne hewitti)
  • Bainskloof moss frog (Arthroleptella bicolor)
  • De Villiers' moss frog (Arthroleptella villiersi)
  • Aubria masako
  • Aubria occidentalis
  • Aubria subsigillata
  • Boettger's dainty frog (Cacosternum boettgeri)
  • Karoo dainty frog (Cacosternum karooicum)
  • Cacosternum kinangopensis
  • Namaqua caco (Cacosternum namaquense)
  • Bronze caco (Cacosternum nanum)
  • Mountain caco (Cacosternum parvum)
  • Flat caco (Cacosternum platys)
  • Cacosternum plimptoni
  • Striped caco (Cacosternum striatum)
  • African bullfrog (Pyxicephalus adspersus)
  • Parry's bullfrog (Pyxicephalus angusticeps)
  • Edible bullfrog (Pyxicephalus edulis)
  • Calabresi's bullfrog (Pyxicephalus obbianus)
  • Banded stream frog (Strongylopus bonaespei)
  • Striped stream frog (Strongylopus fasciatus)
  • Fuelleborn's stream frog (Strongylopus fuelleborni)
  • Gray's stream frog (Strongylopus grayii)
  • Strongylopus merumontanus
  • Namaqua stream frog (Strongylopus springbokensis)
  • Wager's stream frog (Strongylopus wageri)
  • Common sand frog (Tomopterna cryptotis)
  • Delalande's sand frog (Tomopterna delalandii)
  • Tomopterna elegans
  • Gallmann's sand frog (Tomopterna gallmanni)
  • Tomopterna kachowskii
  • Knocking sand frog (Tomopterna krugerensis)
  • Tomopterna luganga
  • Marbled sand frog (Tomopterna marmorata)
  • Natal sand frog (Tomopterna natalensis)
  • Tandy's sand frog (Tomopterna tandyi)
  • Rough sand frog (Tomopterna tuberculosa)
  • Wamba sand frog (Tomopterna wambensis)

Australian ground frogs
  • Western spotted frog (Heleioporus albopunctatus)
  • Western marsh frog (Heleioporus barycragus)
  • Moaning frog (Heleioporus eyrei)
  • Plain frog (Heleioporus inornatus)
  • Sand frog (Heleioporus psammophilus)
  • Lechriodus aganoposis
  • Fletcher's frog (Lechriodus fletcheri)
  • Lechriodus melanopyga
  • Lechriodus platyceps
  • Marbled frog (Limnodynastes convexiusculus)
  • Flat-headed frog (Limnodynastes depressus)
  • Western bullfrog (Limnodynastes dorsalis)
  • Limnodynastes dumerilii
  • Long-thumbed frog (Limnodynastes fletcheri)
  • Giant banjo frog (Limnodynastes interioris)
  • Woodworker frog (Limnodynastes lignarius)
  • Striped marsh frog (Limnodynastes peronii)
  • Salmon-striped frog (Limnodynastes salmini)
  • Spotted grass frog (Limnodynastes tasmaniensis)
  • Northern banjo frog (Limnodynastes terraereginae)
  • White-footed frog (Neobatrachus albipes)
  • Northern burrowing frog (Neobatrachus aquilonius)
  • Trilling frog (Neobatrachus centralis)
  • Tawny frog (Neobatrachus fulvus)
  • Kunapalari frog (Neobatrachus kunapalari)
  • Humming frog (Neobatrachus pelobatoides)
  • Painted burrowing frog (Neobatrachus pictus)
  • Sudell's frog (Neobatrachus sudelli)
  • Shoemaker frog (Neobatrachus sutor)
  • Goldfield's bull frog (Neobatrachus wilsmorei)
  • Crucifix toad (Notaden bennettii)
  • Northern spadefoot toad (Notaden melanoscaphus)
  • Desert spadefoot toad (Notaden nichollsi)
  • Ornate burrowing frog (Platyplectrum ornatum)
  • Spencer's burrowing frog (Platyplectrum spenceri)

Ceratophryids
  • Brazilian horned frog (Ceratophrys aurita)
  • Venezuelan horned frog (Ceratophrys calcarata)
  • Surinam horned frog (Ceratophrys cornuta)
  • Cranwell's horned frog (Ceratophrys cranwelli)
  • Chacophrys pierottii
  • Lepidobatrachus laevis
  • Lepidobatrachus llanensis

Odontophrynids

Ptychadenids

Southern frogs

Saddleback toads

American spadefoot toads
  • Couch's spadefoot toad (Scaphiopus couchii)
  • Scaphiopus holbrookii
  • Hurter's spadefoot toad (Scaphiopus hurterii)
  • Plains spadefoot toad (Spea bombifrons)
  • Great Basin spadefoot (Spea intermontana)
  • New Mexico spadefoot toad (Spea multiplicata)

Hylodids

Other frog species

Gymnophiona
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See also

References
  1. "IUCN Red List version 2016-2". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Retrieved 8 September 2016.
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