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

Some Indian frogs

Order Anura

Family Bufonidae

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
  • 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
  1. Daniels, R. J. R. (2001). "Endemic fishes of the Western Ghats and the Satpura hypothesis" (PDF). Current Science. 81 (3): 240–244.
  2. Frost, Darrel R. (17 August 2006). "Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference" (Electronic database). 4. American Museum of Natural History. Archived from the original on 24 October 2007. Retrieved 16 November 2007.
  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.
  12. Purkayastha, Jayaditya; Das, Madhurima; Mondal, Kingshuk; Mitra, Shibajee; Chaudhuri, Anirban & Das, Indraneil (2019). "A new species of Polypedates Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from West Bengal State, Eastern India". Zootaxa. 4691 (5): 525–540. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4691.5.6.
  13. Giri, V. B. & Gaikwad, K. S. (2013). Towards the Conservation of Caecilian Amphibians of the Northern Western Ghats: Establishing the Systematic Foundation. Mumbai: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 53.
  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.
  16. Kamei, R. G.; Mauro, D. S.; Gower, D. J.; Van Bocxlaer, I.; Sherratt, E.; Thomas, A.; Babu, S.; Bossuyt, F.; Wilkinson, M. & Biju, S. D. (22 February 2012). "Discovery of a new family of amphibians from northeast India with ancient links to Africa". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 279 (1737): 2396–2401. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.0150. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 3350690. PMID 22357266.
  17. Kamei, R. G.; Gower, D. J.; Wilkinson, M. & Biju, S. D. (4 June 2013). "Systematics of the caecilian family Chikilidae (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) with the description of three new species of Chikila from northeast India". Zootaxa. 3666 (4): 401. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3666.4.1. ISSN 1175-5334.
  18. Three species 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 Gower, D. J.; Dharne, M.; Bhatta, G.; Giri, V.; Vyas, R.; Govindappa, V.; Oommen, O. V.; George, J.; Shouche, Y. & Wilkinson, M. (2007). "Remarkable genetic homogeneity in unstriped, long-tailed Ichthyophis along 1500 km of the Western Ghats, India". Journal of Zoology. 272 (3): 266–275. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.2006.00266.x. ISSN 0952-8369.
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