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.



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 [[Image:Bufo melanostictus above.jpg|thumb|[[Duttaphrynus melanostictus|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)

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) [[Image:ChubbyFrog 02.jpg|thumb|[[Banded bull frog|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) [[Image:Fungoid frog.jpg|thumb|[[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) [[Image:Rhacophorus amplexus.jpg|thumb|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)

Family Salamandridae

 * Himalayan newt, Tylototriton verrucosus (Anderson, 1871)