# 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. This list is based largely on Darrel Frost (2006) and includes common names from older books and journals.

## 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 Common 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 Dicroglossidae
#### Dicroglossinae

* Common skittering frog, Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis (Schneider, 1799)
* Euphlyctis ghoshi (Chanda, 1991)
* Indian five-fingered frog, Euphlyctis hexadactylus (Lesson, 1834)
* Karavali skittering frog, 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 charlesdarwini (Das, 1998) = Rana charlesdarwini
* 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) Asian 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)
* Microhyla laterite Seshadri et al., 2016
* Mysticellus franki Garg & Biju, 2019

### 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 periyar Biju et al., 2011
* 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) Fungoid frog, Hydrophylax malabaricus
* 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)
* Raorchestes andersoni (Ahl, 1927)
* Raorchestes anili (Biju and Bossuyt, 2006)
* Raorchestes luteolus (Kuramoto and Joshy, 2003)
* Raorchestes tuberohumerus (Kuramoto and Joshy, 2003)
* Raorchestes annandalii (Boulenger, 1906)
* Raorchestes beddomii (Günther, 1876)
* Raorchestes bobingeri (Biju and Bossuyt, 2005)
* Raorchestes bombayensis (Annandale, 1919)
* Raorchestes chalazodes (Günther, 1876)
* Raorchestes charius (Rao, 1937)
* Raorchestes dubius (Boulenger, 1882)
* Raorchestes femoralis Round-snout pygmy frog (Günther, 1864)
* Raorchestes flaviventris (Boulenger, 1882)
* Raorchestes garo (Boulenger, 1919)
* Raorchestes glandulosus (Jerdon, 1854)
* Raorchestes graminirupes (Biju & Bossuyt, 2005)
* Raorchestes griet (Bossuyt, 2002)
* Raorchestes jerdonii (Günther, 1876)
* Raorchestes kempiae (Boulenger, 1919)
* Raorchestes luteolus = Raorchestes neelanethrus Gururaja et al., 2007
* Raorchestes microdiscus (Annandale, 1912)
* Raorchestes namdaphaensis (Sarkar and Sanyal, 1985)
* Sharp-snout pygmy tree frog, Raorchestes nasutus
* Raorchestes nerostagona
* Raorchestes ochlandrae Gururaja et al., 2007.
* Raorchestes ponmudi
* Raorchestes sanctisilvaticus (Das and Chanda, 1997)
* Raorchestes shillongensis (Pillai and Chanda, 1973)
* Raorchestes signatus (Boulenger, 1882)
* Raorchestes similipalensis (Dutta, 2003)
* Raorchestes terebrans (Das and Chanda, 1998)
* Raorchestes tinniens (Jerdon, 1854)
* Raorchestes travancoricus (Boulenger, 1891)
* Raorchestes tuberohumerus
* Raorchestes wynaadensis (Jerdon, 1854)
* Polypedates bengalensis Purkayastha et al., 2019
* 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)
* Malabar flying frog, Rhacophorus malabaricus (Jerdon, 1870) 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

* 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):

### 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 oommeni Gower & Wilkinson, 2007
* Uraeotyphlus oxyurus (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)

## Order Urodela
### Family Salamandridae

* Himalayan newt, Tylototriton verrucosus (Anderson, 1871)