List of amphibians of India

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 frong 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
  • 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)[9]
  • 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[10]
  • 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.[11]
  • 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 bengalensis Purkayastha et. al., 2019[12]
  • 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
    Malabar Flying Frog, Rhacophorus malabaricus
  • 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

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]
  • Chikila alcocki Kamei, Gower, Wilkinson & Biju, 2013[17]
  • Chikila darlong Kamei, Gower, Wilkinson & Biju, 2013[17]
  • Chikila gaiduwani 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
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  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.
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