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Citation: Dinesh KP, Radhakrishnan C, Channakeshavamurthy BH, Deepak P and

Kulkarni NU (2020). A Checklist of Amphibians of India with IUCN Conservation Status.

Version 3.0. updated till April 2020. available at http://zsi.gov.in (online only).

Cover Photo: Sphaerotheca pashchima Padhye, Dahanukar, Sulakhe, Dandekar, Limaye

and Jamdade, 2017

Zoological Survey of India

Prani Vigyan Bhawan

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Kolkata-700053

A Checklist of Amphibians of India with IUCN Conservation Status (2020)

Zoological Survey of India 1 | P a g e

A Checklist of Amphibians of India with IUCN

Conservation Status K.P. Dinesh1, C. Radhakrishnan2, B.H. Channakeshavamurthy3, P. Deepak4

and Nirmal U Kulkarni5

1Western Regional Centre (WRC), Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Pune – 411044,

Maharashtra; Email: [email protected] 2 33/5267-D, Devika, Golf links Road, Chevayur, Calicut – 673 017, Kerala. 3Western Ghats Regional Centre (WGRC), Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Calicut – 673006,

Kerala. 4Mount Carmel College, Autonomous; No. 58, Palace Road, Vasanth Nagar, Bengaluru –

560052, Karnataka. 5Mhadei Research Centre, C/o Hiru Naik Building, Dhuler Mapusa – 403507, Goa. (Last update: April 2020)



Systematic Arrangement*$

CLASS: AMPHIBIA Gray ORDER: ANURA Fischer von Waldheim

FAMILY: BUFONIDAE Gray

Sl. No. Species IUCN

Conservation Status#

1 Blythophryne beryet Chandramouli, Vasudevan, Harikrishnan, Dutta, Janani,

Sharma, Das and Aggarwal, 2016

NA

2 Bufoides kempi (Boulenger, 1919) DD

3 Bufoides meghalayanus (Yazdani and Chanda, 1971) EN

4 Bufotes latastii (Boulenger, 1882) LC

5 Duttaphrynus beddomii (Günther, 1875) EN

6 Duttaphrynus brevirostris (Rao, 1937) DD

7 Duttaphrynus chandai Das, Chetia, Dutta and Sengupta, 2013 NA

8 Duttaphrynus himalayanus (Günther, 1864) LC

9 Duttaphrynus hololius (Günther, 1876) DD

10 Duttaphrynus kiphirensis (Mathew and Sen, 2009) NA

11 Duttaphrynus mamitensis (Mathew and Sen, 2009) NA

12 Duttaphrynus manipurensis (Mathew and Sen, 2009) NA

13 Duttaphrynus melanostictus (Schneider, 1799) LC

14 Duttaphrynus microtympanum (Boulenger, 1882) VU

15 Duttaphrynus mizoramensis (Mathew and Sen, 2009) NA

16 Duttaphrynus nagalandensis (Mathew and Sen, 2009) NA

17 Duttaphrynus olivaceus (Blanford, 1874) LC

18 Duttaphrynus parietalis (Boulenger, 1882) NT

19 Duttaphrynus scaber (Schneider, 1799) LC

20 Duttaphrynus silentvalleyensis (Pillai, 1981) DD

21 Duttaphrynus stomaticus (Lutken, 1864) LC

22 Duttaphrynus stuarti (Smith, 1929) DD

23 Duttaphrynus wokhaensis (Mathew and Sen, 2009) NA

24 Ghatophryne ornata (Günther, 1875) EN

25 Ghatophryne rubigina (Pillai and Pattabiraman, 1981) VU

26 Ingerophrynus macrotis (Boulenger, 1887) LC

27 Pedostibes tuberculosus Günther, 1875 EN

28 Xanthophryne koynayensis (Soman, 1963) EN

29 Xanthophryne tigerina Biju, Bocxlaer, Giri, Loader and Bossuyt, 2009 CE

FAMILY: CERATOBATRACHIDAE Boulenger

30 Liurana himalayana Saikia and Sinha, 2019 NA

31 Liurana indica Saikia and Sinha, 2019 NA

32 Liurana medogensis Fei, Ye and Huang, 1997 DD

33 Liurana minuta Saikia and Sinha, 2019 NA



FAMILY: DICROGLOSSIDAE Anderson

34 Allopaa barmoachensis (Khan and Tasnim, 1989) NA

35 Allopaa hazarensis (Dubois and Khan, 1979) LC

36 Chrysopaa sternosignata (Murray, 1885) LC

37 Euphlyctis aloysii Joshy, Alam, Kurabayashi, Sumida and Kuramoto, 2009 NA

38 Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis (Schneider, 1799) LC

39 Euphlyctis ghoshi (Chanda, 1990) DD

40 Euphlyctis hexadactylus (Lesson, 1834) LC

41 Euphlyctis kalasgramensis Howlader, Nair, Gopalan and Merilä, 2015 NA

42 Euphlyctis karaavali Priti, Naik, Seshadri, Singhal, Vidisha, Ravikanth and

Gururaja, 2016

EN

43 Euphlyctis mudigere Joshy, Alam, Kurabayashi, Sumida and Kuramoto, 2009 NA

44 Fejervarya cancrivora (Gravenhorst, 1829) LC

45 Fejervarya moodiei (Taylor, 1920) DD

46 Fejervarya multistriata (Hallowell, 1861) DD

47 Fejervarya orissaensis (Dutta, 1997) LC

48 Hoplobatrachus crassus (Jerdon, 1853) LC

49 Hoplobatrachus litoralis Hasan, Kuramoto, Islam, Alam, Khan and Sumida,

2012

NA

50 Hoplobatrachus tigerinus (Daudin, 1802) LC

51 Limnonectes doriae (Boulenger, 1887) LC

52 Limnonectes hascheanus (Stoliczka, 1870) LC

53 Limnonectes khasianus (Anderson, 1871) DD

54 Limnonectes kuhlii (Tschudi, 1838) LC

55 Limnonectes mawlyndipi (Chanda, 1990) DD

56 Limnonectes shompenorum Das, 1996 LC

57 Minervarya agricola (Jerdon, 1853) NA

58 Minervarya andamanensis (Stoliczka, 1870) LC

59 Minervarya asmati (Howlader, 2011) NA

60 Minervarya brevipalmata (Peters, 1871) DD

61 Minervarya caperata (Kuramoto, Joshy, Kurabayashi and Sumida, 2007) NA

62 Minervarya cepfi (Garg and Biju, 2017) NA

63 Minervarya chilapata Ohler, Deuti, Grosjean, Paul, Ayyaswamy, Ahmed and

Dutta, 2009

DD

64 Minervarya goemchi (Dinesh, Kulkarni, Swamy and Deepak, 2018) NA

65 Minervarya gomantaki (Dinesh, Vijayakumar, Channakeshavamurthy,

Toreskar, Kulkarni and Shankar, 2015)

NA

66 Minervarya jhilmilensis (Bahuguna, 2018) NA

67 Minervarya kadar (Garg and Biju, 2017) NA

68 Minervarya kalinga (Raj, Dinesh, Das, Dutta, Kar and Mohapatra, 2018) NA

69 Minervarya keralensis (Dubois, 1981) LC

70 Minervarya krishnan (Raj, Dinesh, Das, Dutta, Kar and Mohapatra, 2018) NA

71 Minervarya kudremukhensis (Kuramoto, Joshy, Kurabayashi and Sumida,

2007)

NA



72 Minervarya manoharani (Garg and Biju, 2017) NA

73 Minervarya marathi (Phuge, Dinesh, Andhale, Bhakare and Pandit, 2019) NA

74 Minervarya modesta (Rao, 1920) NA

75 Minervarya mudduraja (Kuramoto, Joshy, Kurabayashi and Sumida, 2007) NA

76 Minervarya murthii (Pillai, 1979) CE

77 Minervarya mysorensis (Rao, 1922) DD

78 Minervarya neilcoxi (Garg and Biju, 2017) NA

79 Minervarya nepalensis (Dubois, 1975) LC

80 Minervarya nicobariensis (Stoliczka, 1870) EN

81 Minervarya nilagirica (Jerdon, 1854) EN

82 Minervarya parambikulamana (Rao, 1937) DD

83 Minervarya pierrei (Dubois, 1975) LC

84 Minervarya rufescens (Jerdon, 1854) LC

85 Minervarya sahyadris Dubois, Ohler and Biju, 2001 EN

86 Minervarya sauriceps (Rao, 1937) DD

87 Minervarya sengupti (Purkayastha and Matsui, 2012) NA

88 Minervarya syhadrensis (Annandale, 1919) LC

89 Minervarya teraiensis (Dubois, 1984) LC

90 Nanorana annandalii (Boulenger, 1920) NT

91 Nanorana arnoldi (Dubois, 1975) NT

92 Nanorana arunachalensis (Saikia, Sinha and Kharkongor, 2017) NA

93 Nanorana blanfordii (Boulenger, 1882) LC

94 Nanorana chayuensis (Ye, 1977) NA

95 Nanorana conaensis (Fei and Huang, 1981) DD

96 Nanorana gammii (Anderson, 1871) NA

97 Nanorana liebigii (Günther, 1860) LC

98 Nanorana minica (Dubois, 1975) VU

99 Nanorana mokokchungensis (Das and Chanda, 2000) DD

100 Nanorana parkeri (Stejneger, 1927) LC

101 Nanorana vicina (Stoliczka, 1872) LC

102 Ombrana sikimensis (Jerdon, 1870) LC

103 Sphaerotheca breviceps (Schneider, 1799) LC

104 Sphaerotheca dobsonii (Boulenger, 1882) LC

105 Sphaerotheca leucorhynchus (Rao, 1937) DD

106 Sphaerotheca magadha Prasad, Dinesh, Das, Swamy, Shinde and Vishnu, 2019 NA

107 Sphaerotheca pashchima Padhye, Dahanukar, Sulakhe, Dandekar, Limaye and

Jamdade, 2017

NA

108 Sphaerotheca pluvialis (Jerdon, 1853) NA

109 Sphaerotheca rolandae (Dubois, 1983) LC

110 Ingerana borealis (Annandale, 1912) VU

111 Ingerana charlesdarwini (Das, 1998) CE

112 Occidozyga lima (Gravenhorst, 1829) LC

113 Occidozyga sumatrana (Peters, 1877) LC



FAMILY: HYLIDAE Rafinesque

114 Hyla annectans (Jerdon, 1870) LC

FAMILY: MEGOPHRYIDAE Bonaparte

115 Leptobrachella khasiorum (Das, Tron, Rangad and Hooroo, 2010) NA

116 Leptobrachella lateralis (Anderson, 1871) NA

117 Leptobrachella nokrekensis (Mathew and Sen, 2009) NA

118 Leptobrachella tamdil (Sengupta, Sailo, Lalremsanga, Das and Das, 2010) NA

119 Leptobrachium bompu Sondhi and Ohler, 2011 NA

120 Leptobrachium rakhinense Wogan, 2012 EN

121 Leptobrachium smithi Matsui, Nabhitabhata and Panha, 1999 LC

122 Megophrys ancrae Mahony, Teeling and Biju, 2013 NA

123 Megophrys flavipunctata Mahony, Kamei, Teeling and Biju, 2018 NA

124 Megophrys himalayana Mahony, Kamei, Teeling and Biju, 2018 NA

125 Megophrys major Boulenger, 1908 LC

126 Megophrys megacephala Mahony, Sengupta, Kamei and Biju, 2011 NA

127 Megophrys minor Stejneger, 1926 LC

128 Megophrys monticola (Günther, 1864) NA

129 Megophrys oreocrypta Mahony, Kamei, Teeling and Biju, 2018 NA

130 Megophrys oropedion Mahony, Teeling and Biju, 2013 NA

131 Megophrys pachyproctus Huang, 1981 DD

132 Megophrys parva (Boulenger, 1893) LC

133 Megophrys periosa Mahony, Kamei, Teeling and Biju, 2018 NA

134 Megophrys robusta Boulenger, 1908 DD

135 Megophrys serchhipii (Mathew and Sen, 2007) DD

136 Megophrys vegrandis Mahony, Teeling and Biju, 2013 NA

137 Megophrys wuliangshanensis Ye and Fei, 1995 DD

138 Megophrys zunhebotoensis (Mathew and Sen, 2007) DD

139 Scutiger boulengeri (Bedriaga, 1898) LC

140 Scutiger occidentalis Dubois, 1978 NA

141 Scutiger sikimmensis (Blyth, 1855) LC

142 Scutiger spinosus Jiang, Wang, Li and Che, 2016 NA

FAMILY: MICRIXALIDAE Dubois, Ohler and Biju

143 Micrixalus adonis Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Souche and Walujkar, 2014 NA

144 Micrixalus candidus Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Souche and Walujkar, 2014 NA

145 Micrixalus elegans (Rao, 1937) DD

146 Micrixalus frigidus Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Souche and Walujkar, 2014 NA

147 Micrixalus fuscus (Boulenger, 1882) NT

148 Micrixalus gadgili Pillai and Pattabiraman, 1990 EN

149 Micrixalus herrei Myers, 1942 NA

150 Micrixalus kodayari Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Souche and Walujkar, 2014 NA

151 Micrixalus kottigeharensis (Rao, 1937) CE

152 Micrixalus kurichiyari Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Souche and Walujkar, 2014 NA



153 Micrixalus mallani Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Souche and Walujkar, 2014 NA

154 Micrixalus nelliyampathi Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Souche and Walujkar, 2014 NA

155 Micrixalus nigraventris Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Souche and Walujkar, 2014 NA

156 Micrixalus niluvasei Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Souche and Walujkar, 2014 NA

157 Micrixalus nudis Pillai, 1978 VU

158 Micrixalus phyllophilus (Jerdon, 1853) VU

159 Micrixalus sairandhri Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Souche and Walujkar, 2014 NA

160 Micrixalus sali Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Souche and Walujkar, 2014 NA

161 Micrixalus saxicola (Jerdon, 1853) VU

162 Micrixalus silvaticus (Boulenger, 1882) DD

163 Micrixalus specca Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Souche and Walujkar, 2014 NA

164 Micrixalus spelunca Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Souche and Walujkar, 2014 NA

165 Micrixalus thampii Pillai, 1981 DD

166 Micrixalus uttaraghati Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Souche and Walujkar, 2014 NA

FAMILY: MICROHYLIDAE Günther

167 Kalophrynus orangensis Dutta, Ahmed and Das, 2000 DD

168 Melanobatrachus indicus Beddome, 1878 EN

169 Kaloula assamensis Das, Sengupta, Ahmed and Dutta, 2005 LC

170 Kaloula ghoshi Cherchi, 1954 NA

171 Kaloula pulchra Gray, 1831 LC

172 Microhyla berdmorei (Blyth, 1856) LC

173 Microhyla butleri Boulenger, 1900 LC

174 Microhyla chakrapanii Pillai, 1977 DD

175 Microhyla darreli Garg, Suyesh, Das, Jiang, Wijayathilaka, Amarasinghe,

Alhadi, Vineeth, Aravind, Senevirathne, Meegaskumbura and Biju, 2018

NA

176 Microhyla eos Biju, Garg, Kamei and Maheswaran, 2019 NA

177 Microhyla heymonsi Vogt, 1911 LC

178 Microhyla kodial Vineeth, Radhakrishna, Godwin, Anwesha, Rajashekhar and

Aravind, 2018

NA

179 Microhyla laterite Seshadri, Singal, Priti, Ravikanth, Vidisha, Saurabh, Pratik

and Gururaja, 2016

EN

180 Microhyla mukhlesuri Hasan, Islam, Kuramoto, Kurabayashi and Sumida,

2014

NA

181 Microhyla mymensinghensis Hasan, Islam, Kuramoto, Kurabayashi and

Sumida, 2014

NA

182 Microhyla nilphamariensis Howlader, Nair, Gopalan and Merilä, 2015 NA

183 Microhyla ornata (Dumeril and Bibron, 1841) LC

184 Microhyla rubra (Jerdon, 1853) LC

185 Microhyla sholigari Dutta and Ray, 2000 EN

186 Microhyla taraiensis Khatiwada, Shu, Wang, Thapa, Wang and Jiang, 2017 NA

187 Micryletta inornata (Boulenger, 1890) LC

188 Micryletta aishani Das, Garg, Hamidy, Smith and Biju, 2019 NA

189 Mysticellus franki Garg and Biju, 2019 NA

190 Uperodon anamalaiensis (Rao, 1937) DD



191 Uperodon globulosus (Günther, 1864) LC

192 Uperodon montanus (Jerdon, 1853) NT

193 Uperodon mormoratus (Rao, 1937) EN

194 Uperodon systoma (Schneider, 1799) LC

195 Uperodon taprobanicus (Parker, 1934) LC

196 Uperodon triangularis (Günther, 1875) VU

197 Uperodon variegatus (Stoliczka, 1872) LC

FAMILY: NASIKABATRACHIDAE Biju and Bossuyt

198 Nasikabatrachus bhupathi Janani, Vasudevan, Prendini, Dutta and Aggarwal,

2017

NA

199 Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis Biju and Bossuyt, 2003 EN

FAMILY: NYCTIBATRACHIDAE Blommers-Schlösser

200 Astrobatrachus kurichiyana Vijayakumar, Pyron, Dinesh, Torsekar,

Srikanthan, Swamy, Stanley, Blackburn and Shanker, 2019

NA

201 Nyctibatrachus acanthodermis Biju, Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh,

Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri and Bossuyt, 2011

NA

202 Nyctibatrachus aliciae Inger, Shaffer, Koshy and Bakde, 1984 EN

203 Nyctibatrachus anamallaiensis (Myers, 1942) NA

204 Nyctibatrachus athirappillyensis Garg, Suyesh, Sukesan and Biju, 2017 NA

205 Nyctibatrachus beddomii (Boulenger, 1882) EN

206 Nyctibatrachus danieli Biju, Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan,

Zachariah, Giri and Bossuyt, 2011

NA

207 Nyctibatrachus dattatreyaensis Dinesh, Radhakrishnan and Bhatta, 2008 CE

208 Nyctibatrachus deccanensis Dubois, 1984 VU

209 Nyctibatrachus deveni Biju, Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan,


NA

210 Nyctibatrachus gavi Biju, Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan,


NA

211 Nyctibatrachus grandis Biju, Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan,


NA

212 Nyctibatrachus humayuni Bhaduri and Kripalani, 1955 VU

213 Nyctibatrachus indraneili Biju, Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan,


NA

214 Nyctibatrachus jog Biju, Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah,

Giri and Bossuyt, 2011

NA

215 Nyctibatrachus karnatakaensis Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Reddy and Gururaja,

2007

EN

216 Nyctibatrachus kempholeyensis (Rao, 1937) DD

217 Nyctibatrachus kumbara Gururaja, Dinesh, Priti and Ravikanth, 2014 NA

218 Nyctibatrachus major Boulenger, 1882 VU

219 Nyctibatrachus manalari Garg, Suyesh, Sukesan and Biju, 2017 NA

220 Nyctibatrachus mewasinghi Krutha, Dahanukar and Molur, 2017 NA

221 Nyctibatrachus minimus Biju, Bocxlaer, Giri, Roelants, Nagaraju and Bossuyt,

2007

DD

222 Nyctibatrachus minor Inger, Shaffer, Koshy and Bakde, 1984 EN

223 Nyctibatrachus periyar Biju, Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan,


NA



224 Nyctibatrachus petraeus Das and Kunte, 2005 LC

225 Nyctibatrachus pillaii Biju, Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan,


NA

226 Nyctibatrachus poocha Biju, Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan,


NA

227 Nyctibatrachus pulivijayani Garg, Suyesh, Sukesan and Biju, 2017 NA

228 Nyctibatrachus radcliffei Garg, Suyesh, Sukesan and Biju, 2017 NA

229 Nyctibatrachus robinmoorei Garg, Suyesh, Sukesan and Biju, 2017 NA

230 Nyctibatrachus sabarimalai Garg, Suyesh, Sukesan and Biju, 2017 NA

231 Nyctibatrachus sanctipalustris Rao, 1920 EN

232 Nyctibatrachus shiradi Biju, Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan,


NA

233 Nyctibatrachus sylvaticus Rao, 1937 DD

234 Nyctibatrachus vasanthi Ravichandran, 1997 EN

235 Nyctibatrachus vrijeuni Biju, Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan,


NA

236 Nyctibatrachus webilla Garg, Suyesh, Sukesan and Biju, 2017 NA

FAMILY: RANIDAE Batsch

237 Amnirana nicobariensis (Stoliczka, 1870) LC

238 Amolops assamensis Sengupta, Hussain, Choudhury, Gogoi, Ahmed and

Choudhury, 2008

DD

239 Amolops chakrataensis Ray, 1992 DD

240 Amolops formosus (Günther, 1875) LC

241 Amolops gerbillus (Annandale, 1912) LC

242 Amolops himalayanus (Boulenger, 1888) NA

243 Amolops indoburmanensis Dever, Fuiten, Konu and Wilkinson, 2012 NA

244 Amolops jaunsari Ray, 1992 DD

245 Amolops kaulbacki (Smith, 1940) DD

246 Amolops kohimaensis Biju, Mahony and Kamei, 2010 NA

247 Amolops marmoratus (Blyth, 1855) LC

248 Amolops monticola (Anderson, 1871) LC

249 Amolops nidorbellus Biju, Mahony and Kamei, 2010 NA

250 Amolops viridimaculatus (Jiang, 1983) NT

251 Clinotarsus alticola (Boulenger, 1882) LC

252 Clinotarsus curtipes (Jerdon, 1853) NT

253 Humerana humeralis (Boulenger, 1887) LC

254 Hydrophylax bahuvistara Padhye, Jadhav, Modak, Nameer and Dahanukar,

2015

NA

255 Hydrophylax leptoglossa (Cope, 1868) LC

256 Hydrophylax malabaricus (Tschudi, 1838) LC

257 Hylarana erythraea (Schlegel, 1837) LC

258 Hylarana garoensis (Boulenger, 1920) LC

259 Hylarana tytleri Theobald, 1868 LC

260 Indosylvirana aurantiaca (Boulenger, 1904) VU

261 Indosylvirana caesari (Biju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne and NA



Meegaskumbura, 2014)

262 Indosylvirana doni (Biju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne and


NA

263 Indosylvirana flavescens (Jerdon, 1853) NA

264 Indosylvirana indica (Biju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne and


NA

265 Indosylvirana intermedia (Rao, 1937) NA

266 Indosylvirana magna (Biju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne and


NA

267 Indosylvirana montana (Rao, 1922) NA

268 Indosylvirana sreeni (Biju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne and


NA

269 Indosylvirana urbis (Biju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne and


NA

270 Odorrana andersonii (Boulenger, 1882) LC

271 Odorrana chloronota (Günther, 1876) LC

272 Odorrana livida (Blyth, 1856) DD

273 Odorrana mawphlangensis (Pillai and Chanda, 1977) DD

274 Pterorana khare Kiyasetuo and Khare, 1986 VU

275 Sylvirana nigrovittata (Blyth, 1856) LC

FAMILY: RANIXALIDAE Dubois

276 Indirana beddomii (Günther, 1875) LC

277 Indirana bhadrai Garg and Biju, 2016 NA

278 Indirana brachytarsus (Günther, 1875) EN

279 Indirana chiravasi Padhye, Modak and Dahanukar, 2014 NA

280 Indirana duboisi Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye and Molur,

2016

NA

281 Indirana gundia (Dubois, 1986) CE

282 Indirana leithii (Boulenger, 1888) VU

283 Indirana longicrus (Rao, 1937) DD

284 Indirana paramakri Garg and Biju, 2016 NA

285 Indirana salelkari Modak, Dahanukar, Gosavi and Padhye, 2015 NA

286 Indirana sarojamma Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye and Molur,

2016

NA

287 Indirana semipalmata (Boulenger, 1882) LC

288 Indirana tysoni Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye and Molur, 2016 NA

289 Indirana yadera Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye and Molur,

2016

NA

290 Walkerana diplosticta (Günther, 1876) EN

291 Walkerana leptodactyla (Boulenger, 1882) EN

292 Walkerana muduga Dinesh, Vijayakumar, Ramesh, Jayarajan, Chandramouli

and Shanker, 2020

NA

293 Walkerana phrynoderma (Boulenger, 1882) CE

FAMILY: RHACOPHORIDAE Hoffman

294 Beddomixalus bijui (Zachariah, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Kunhikrishnan, Palot

and Vishnudas, 2011)

NA



295 Chirixalus cherrapunjiae (Roonwal and Kripalani, 1966) DD

296 Chirixalus doriae Boulenger, 1893 LC

297 Chirixalus dudhwaensis Ray, 1992 DD

298 Chirixalus nongkhorensis (Cochran, 1927) LC

299 Chirixalus senapatiensis Mathew and Sen, 2009 NA

300 Chirixalus shyamrupus (Chanda and Ghosh, 1989) DD

301 Chirixalus simus Annandale, 1915 LC

302 Feihyla vittata (Boulenger, 1887) LC

303 Ghatixalus asterops Biju, Roelants and Bossuyt, 2008 DD

304 Ghatixalus magnus Abraham, Mathew, Cyriac, Zachariah, Raju and Zachariah,

2015

NA

305 Ghatixalus variabilis (Jerdon, 1853) EN

306 Kurixalus appendiculatus (Günther, 1858) LC

307 Kurixalus naso (Annandale, 1912) DD

308 Mercurana myristicapalustris Abraham, Pyron, Ansil, Zachariah and

Zachariah, 2013

NA

309 Nasutixalus jerdonii (Günther, 1876) DD

310 Philautus dubius (Boulenger, 1882) DD

311 Philautus garo (Boulenger, 1919) VU

312 Philautus kempiae (Boulenger, 1919) DD

313 Philautus kempii (Annandale, 1912) DD

314 Philautus microdiscus (Annandale, 1912) DD

315 Philautus namdaphaensis Sarkar and Sanyal, 1985 DD

316 Polypedates assamensis Mathew and Sen, 2009 NA

317 Polypedates bengalensis Purkayastha, Das, Mondal, Mitra and Das, 2019 NA

318 Polypedates himalayensis (Annandale, 1912) NA

319 Polypedates insularis Das, 1995 EN

320 Polypedates leucomystax (Gravenhorst, 1829) LC

321 Polypedates maculatus (Gray, 1830) LC

322 Polypedates megacephalus Hallowell, 1861 LC

323 Polypedates occidentalis Das and Dutta, 2006 DD

324 Polypedates pseudocruciger Das and Ravichandran, 1998 LC

325 Polypedates subansiriensis Mathew and Sen, 2009 NA

326 Polypedates taeniatus (Boulenger, 1906) LC

327 Polypedates teraiensis (Dubois, 1987) NA

328 Pseudophilautus amboli (Biju and Bossuyt, 2009) CE

329 Pseudophilautus kani (Biju and Bossuyt, 2009) LC

330 Pseudophilautus wynaadensis (Jerdon, 1853) EN

331 Raorchestes agasthyaensis Zachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju,

Radhakrishnan, Palot and Kalesh, 2011

NA

332 Raorchestes akroparallagi (Biju and Bossuyt, 2009) LC

333 Raorchestes anili (Biju and Bossuyt, 2006) LC

334 Raorchestes annandalii (Boulenger, 1906) LC

335 Raorchestes archeos Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu and Shanker, 2014 NA



336 Raorchestes aureus Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu and Shanker, 2014 NA

337 Raorchestes beddomii (Günther, 1876) NT

338 Raorchestes blandus Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu and Shanker, 2014 NA

339 Raorchestes bobingeri (Biju and Bossuyt, 2005) VU

340 Raorchestes bombayensis (Annandale, 1919) VU

341 Raorchestes chalazodes (Günther, 1876) CE

342 Raorchestes charius (Rao, 1937) EN

343 Raorchestes chlorosomma (Biju and Bossuyt, 2009) CE

344 Raorchestes chotta (Biju and Bossuyt, 2009) DD

345 Raorchestes chromasynchysi (Biju and Bossuyt, 2009) VU

346 Raorchestes coonoorensis (Biju and Bossuyt, 2009) LC

347 Raorchestes crustai Zachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju,


NA

348 Raorchestes dubois (Biju and Bossuyt, 2006) VU

349 Raorchestes echinatus Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu and Shanker, 2014 NA

350 Raorchestes flaviocularis Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu and Shanker, 2014 NA

351 Raorchestes flaviventris (Boulenger, 1882) DD

352 Raorchestes ghatei Padhye, Sayyed, Jadhav and Dahanukar, 2013 NA

353 Raorchestes glandulosus (Jerdon, 1853) VU

354 Raorchestes graminirupes (Biju and Bossuyt, 2005) VU

355 Raorchestes griet (Bossuyt, 2002) CE

356 Raorchestes hassanensis (Dutta, 1985) NA

357 Raorchestes honnametti Gururaja, Priti, Roshmi and Aravind, 2016 NA

358 Raorchestes indigo Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu and Shanker, 2014 NA

359 Raorchestes jayarami (Biju and Bossuyt, 2009) NA

360 Raorchestes johnceei Zachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju,


NA

361 Raorchestes kadalarensis Zachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju,


NA

362 Raorchestes kaikatti (Biju and Bossuyt, 2009) CE

363 Raorchestes kakachi Seshadri, Gururaja and Aravind, 2012 NA

364 Raorchestes lechiya Zachariah, Cyriac, Chandramohan, Ansil, Mathew, Raju

and Abraham, 2016

NA

365 Raorchestes leucolatus Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu and Shanker, 2014 NA

366 Raorchestes longchuanensis (Yang and Li, 1978) LC

367 Raorchestes luteolus (Kuramoto and Joshy, 2003) DD

368 Raorchestes manipurensis (Mathew and Sen, 2009) NA

369 Raorchestes manohari Zachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju,


NA

370 Raorchestes marki (Biju and Bossuyt, 2009) CE

371 Raorchestes munnarensis (Biju and Bossuyt, 2009) CE

372 Raorchestes nerostagona (Biju and Bossuyt, 2005) EN

373 Raorchestes ochlandrae (Gururaja, Dinesh, Palot, Radhakrishnan and

Ramachandra, 2007)

DD

374 Raorchestes ponmudi (Biju and Bossuyt, 2005) CE



375 Raorchestes primarrumpfi Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu and Shanker, 2014 NA

376 Raorchestes ravii Zachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju,


NA

377 Raorchestes resplendens Biju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta and Bossuyt, 2010 CE

378 Raorchestes sahai (Sarkar and Ray, 2006) DD

379 Raorchestes sanctisilvaticus (Das and Chanda, 1997) CE

380 Raorchestes shillongensis (Pillai and Chanda, 1973) CE

381 Raorchestes signatus (Boulenger, 1882) EN

382 Raorchestes silentvalley Zachariah, Cyriac, Chandramohan, Ansil, Mathew,

Raju and Abraham, 2016

NA

383 Raorchestes sushili (Biju and Bossuyt, 2009) CE

384 Raorchestes theuerkaufi Zachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju,


NA

385 Raorchestes thodai Zachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju,


NA

386 Raorchestes tinniens (Jerdon, 1853) EN

387 Raorchestes travancoricus (Boulenger, 1891) EN

388 Raorchestes tuberohumerus (Kuramoto and Joshy, 2003) DD

389 Raorchestes uthamani Zachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju,


NA

390 Rhacophorus bipunctatus Ahl, 1927 LC

391 Rhacophorus calcadensis Ahl, 1927 EN

392 Rhacophorus kio Ohler and Delorme, 2006 LC

393 Rhacophorus lateralis Boulenger, 1883 EN

394 Rhacophorus malabaricus Jerdon, 1870 LC

395 Rhacophorus pseudomalabaricus Vasudevan and Dutta, 2000 CE

396 Rhacophorus rhodopus Liu and Hu, 1960 LC

397 Rhacophorus subansiriensis Mathew and Sen, 2009 NA

398 Rhacophorus translineatus Wu, 1977 DD

399 Rhacophorus tuberculatus (Anderson, 1871) DD

400 Theloderma andersoni (Ahl, 1927) LC

401 Theloderma baibungense (Jiang, Fei and Huang, 2009) DD

402 Theloderma moloch (Annandale, 1912) VU

403 Theloderma nagalandense Orlov, Dutta, Ghate and Kent, 2006 DD

404 Zhangixalus burmanus (Andersson, 1939) NA

405 Zhangixalus smaragdinus (Blyth, 1852) LC

406 Zhangixalus suffry (Bordoloi, Bortamuli and Ohler, 2007) LC

ORDER: CAUDATA Fischer von Waldheim FAMILY: SALAMANDRIDAE Goldfuss

407 Tylototriton himalayanus Khatiwada, Wang, Ghimire, Vasudevan, Paudel and

Jiang, 2015

NA

408 Tylototriton verrucosus Anderson, 1871 LC

ORDER: GYMNOPHIONA Müller FAMILY: CHIKILIDAE Kamei, Mauro, Gower, Bocxlaer, Sherratt, Thomas, Babu, Bossuyt, Wilkinson

and Biju

409 Chikila alcocki Kamei, Gower, Wilkinson and Biju, 2013 NA



410 Chikila darlong Kamei, Gower, Wilkinson and Biju, 2013 NA

411 Chikila fulleri (Alcock, 1904) DD

412 Chikila gaiduwani Kamei, Gower, Wilkinson and Biju, 2013 NA

FAMILY: ICHTHYOPHIIDAE Taylor

413 Ichthyophis alfredi Mathew and Sen, 2009 NA

414 Ichthyophis beddomei Peters, 1879 LC

415 Ichthyophis bombayensis Taylor, 1960 LC

416 Ichthyophis daribokensis Mathew and Sen, 2009 NA

417 Ichthyophis davidi Bhatta, Dinesh, Prashanth, Kulkarni and Radhakrishan,

2011

NA

418 Ichthyophis garoensis Pillai and Ravichandran, 1999 DD

419 Ichthyophis khumhzi Kamei, Wilkinson, Gower and Biju, 2009 DD

420 Ichthyophis kodaguensis Wilkinson, Gower, Govindappa and Venkatachalaiah,

2007

DD

421 Ichthyophis longicephalus Pillai, 1986 DD

422 Ichthyophis moustakius Kamei, Wilkinson, Gower and Biju, 2009 DD

423 Ichthyophis nokrekensis Mathew and Sen, 2009 NA

424 Ichthyophis sendenyu Kamei, Wilkinson, Gower and Biju, 2009 DD

425 Ichthyophis sikkimensis Taylor, 1960 DD

426 Ichthyophis tricolor Annandale, 1909 LC

427 Uraeotyphlus gansi Gower, Rajendran, Nassbaum and Wilkinson, 2008 DD

428 Uraeotyphlus interruptus Pillai and Ravichandran, 1999 DD

429 Uraeotyphlus malabaricus (Beddome, 1870) DD

430 Uraeotyphlus menoni Annandale, 1913 DD

431 Uraeotyphlus narayani Seshachar, 1939 DD

432 Uraeotyphlus oommeni Gower and Wilkinson, 2007 DD

433 Uraeotyphlus oxyurus (Dumeril and Bibron, 1841) DD

FAMILY: INDOTYPHLIDAE Lescure, Renous and Gasc

434 Gegeneophis carnosus (Beddome, 1870) DD

435 Gegeneophis danieli Giri, Wilkinson and Gower, 2003 DD

436 Gegeneophis goaensis Bhatta, Dinesh, Prashanth and Kulkarni, 2007 DD

437 Gegeneophis krishni Pillai and Ravichandran, 1999 DD

438 Gegeneophis madhavai Bhatta and Srinivasa, 2004 DD

439 Gegeneophis mhadeiensis Bhatta, Dinesh, Prashanth and Kulkarni, 2007 DD

440 Gegeneophis orientalis Agarwal, Wilkinson, Mohapatra, Dutta, Giri and Gower,

2013

NA

441 Gegeneophis pareshi Giri, Gower, Gaikwad and Wilkinson, 2011 NA

442 Gegeneophis primus Kotharambath, Gower, Oommen and Wilkinson, 2012 NA

443 Gegeneophis ramaswamii Taylor, 1964 LC

444 Gegeneophis seshachari Ravichandran, Gower and Wilkinson, 2003 DD

445 Gegeneophis tejaswini Kotharambath, Wilkinson, Oommen and Gower, 2015 NA

446 Indotyphlus battersbyi Taylor, 1960 DD

447 Indotyphlus maharashtraensis Giri, Gower and Wilkinson, 2004 DD



*Systematics followed after Frost, D.R. 2020. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online

Reference. Version 6.0 (Date of access, 08/04/2020). Electronic Database accessible at

http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.html. American Museum of Natural History,

New York, USA. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5531/db.vz.0001

$Treatment of the genus Minervarya is provisional

#The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020. Version 2017-1. <www.iucnredlist.org>.

(Downloaded on 09/04/2020).

CE: Critically Endangered; EN: Endangered; VU: Vulnerable; NT: Near Threatened; LC: Least

Concern; DD: Data Deficient; NA: Not Assessed

Table 1: Conservation status for the amphibian families of India enumerated based on the IUCN criteria as on April 2020

Family CE EN VU NT LC DD NA Total

Bufonidae 1 5 2 1 7 5 8 29

Ceratobatrachidae – – – – – 1 3 4

Dicroglossidae 2 4 2 2 29 13 28 80

Hylidae – – – – 1 – – 1

Megophryidae – 1 – – 6 5 16 28

Micrixalidae 1 1 3 1 – 3 15 24

Microhylidae – 4 1 1 12 3 10 31

Nasikabatrachidae – 1 – – – – 1 2

Nyctibatrachidae 1 6 3 – 1 3 23 37

Ranidae – – 2 2 15 6 14 39

Ranixalidae 2 3 1 - 2 1 9 18

Rhacophoridae 13 10 8 1 23 22 36 113

Salamandridae – – – – 1 – 1 2

Chikilidae – – – – – 1 3 4

Ichthyophiidae – – – – 3 14 4 21

Indotyphlidae – – – – 1 9 4 14

Total 20 35 22 8 101 86 175 447

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