List of amphibians of India
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 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]
File:Frog india thumb strip.jpg
Some Indian frogs
Contents
- 1 Order Anura
- 2 Order Gymnophiona
- 3 Order Urodela
- 4 References
- 5 External links
Order Anura
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
File:Bufo melanostictus above.jpgCommon Indian Toad, Bufo melanostictus
- 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
Family Dicroglossidae
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)
File:ChubbyFrog 02.jpgAsian Painted Frog, Kaloula pulchra
- 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)
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.[6]
- Nyctibatrachus sholai Radhakrishnan, Dinesh & Ravichandran, 2007.[7]
- Nyctibatrachus dattatreyaensis Dinesh K P, Radhakrishnan C & Gopalakrishna Bhatta, 2008 [8]
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 Hylarana malabarica (Tschudi, 1838)
File:Fungoid frog.jpgFungoid Frog, Hylarana malabarica
- 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)[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 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
File:Rhacophorus amplexus.jpgMalabar 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
- Purple Frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis) (Biju and Bossuyt, 2003)
Order Gymnophiona
The list of Indian caecilians is based on Giri & Gaikwad (2013) (duly amended):[12]
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 [13]
- Gegeneophis mhadeiensis Bhatta, Dinesh, Prashanth & Kulkarni, 2007
- Gegeneophis nadkarnii Bhatta and Prashanth, 2004 [14]
- 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[15]
- Chikila alcocki Kamei, Gower, Wilkinson & Biju, 2013[16]
- Chikila darlong Kamei, Gower, Wilkinson & Biju, 2013[16]
- Chikila gaiduwani Kamei, Gower, Wilkinson & Biju, 2013[16]
Family Ichthyophiidae
File:Caecilian wynaad1.jpg
Ichthyophis sp. from the Western Ghats
- Ichthyophis spp.[17]
- 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)
Order Urodela
File:Tylotriton verrucosus gab.jpg
Tylototriton verrucosus
Family Salamandridae
- Himalayan Newt Tylototriton verrucosus (Anderson, 1871)
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Frost, Darrel R. 2006. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 4 (17 August 2006). Electronic Database accessible at [1]. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.
- ↑ R. J. Ranjit Daniels (2005) Amphibians of Peninsular India. Universities Press.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Sclater, WL (1892) List of the Batrachia in the Indian museum. scan
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Gururaja, KV and Dinesh, KP and Palot, MJ and Radhakrishnan, C and Ramachandra, TV (2007) A new species of Philautus Gistel (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from southern Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa 1621:pp. 1-16. PDF
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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- ↑ 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 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
