List of amphibians of India

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Template:Short description 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 Darrel Frost (2006)[2] and includes common names from older books and journals.[3][4][5]

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Some Indian frogs

Order Anura

Family Bufonidae

Family Dicroglossidae

Dicroglossinae

Occidozyginae

Family Hylidae

Family Megophryidae

Family Micrixalidae

Family Microhylidae

Family Nyctibatrachidae

Family Petropedetidae

Family Ranidae

Family Rhacophoridae

Family Sooglossidae

  • Purple frog, Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis (Biju and Bossuyt, 2003)
  • Bhupathy's purple frog, Nasikabatrachus bupathi (Janani, Vasudevan, Prendini, Dutta, and Aggarwal, 2017)

Order Gymnophiona

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

Family Caeciliidae

Gegeneophis spp.
Indotyphlus spp.

Family Chikilidae

Family Ichthyophiidae

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Ichthyophis sp. from the Western Ghats

Ichthyophis spp.[18]

Uraeotyphlus spp.

Order Urodela

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Tylototriton verrucosus

Family Salamandridae

References

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  3. ↑ Daniels, R. J. Ranjit (2005). Amphibians of Peninsular India. Universities Press.
  4. ↑ Chanda, Shyamal Kumar; Das, Indraneil & Dubois, Alain (2000). "Catalogue of amphibian types in the collection of the Zoological Survey of India". Hamadryad. 25 (2): 100–128. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011
  5. ↑ Sclater, William Lutley (1892). List of the Batrachia in the Indian Museum.
  6. ↑ Biju, S. D. et al. (2007). "A new nightfrog Nyctibatrachus minimus sp. nov. (Anura: Nyctibatrachidae): The smallest frog from India". Current Science. 93 (6): 854-858.
  7. ↑ Radhakrishnan, C.; Dinesh, K. P. & Ravichandran, M. S. (2007). "A new species of Nyctibatrachus Boulenger (Amphibia: Anura: Nyctibatrachidae) from the Eravikulam National Park, Kerala, India". Zootaxa. 1595: 31–41.
  8. ↑ Dinesh, K. P.; C, Radhakrishnan & Bhatta, Gopalakrishna (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. ↑ Biju, S.D.; Roelants, Kim & Bossuyt, Franky (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, K. V.; Aravind, N. A.; Ali, S.; Ramachandra, T. V.; Velavan, T. P.; Krishnakumar, V. & Aggarwal, R. K. (2007). "A New Frog Species from the Central Western Ghats of India, and its Phylogenetic Position". Zoological Science. 24: 525-534.
  11. ↑ Gururaja, K. V.; Dinesh, K. P.; Palot, M. J.; Radhakrishnan, C. & Ramachandra, T. V. (2007). "A new species of Raorchestes Gistel (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from southern Western Ghats, India". Zootaxa. 1621: 1-16.
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  14. ↑ Bhatta, Gopalakrishna & Srinivasa, R. (2004). "A new species of Gegeneophis Peters (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from the surroundings of Mookambika Wildlife Sanctuary, Karnataka, India". Zootaxa. 644: 1–8.
  15. ↑ Bhatta, Gopalakrishna & Prashanth, P. (2004). "Gegeneophis nadkarnii – a caecilian (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats". Current Science. 87 (3): 10.
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