List of amphibians of the United States

This is a list of amphibians found in the United States. A total of 306 amphibian species have been recorded in the United States,^[1] 2 of which are now extinct.^[2] This list is derived from the database listing of Amphibian Species of the World.^[1]

Salamanders (Caudata)

Ambystomatidae

Ambystoma californiense

Ambystoma barbouri

Ambystoma mavortium

Order: Caudata. Family: Ambystomatidae

• Ambystoma annulatum
  Cope, 1886
• Ambystoma barbouri
  Kraus & Petranka, 1989
• Ambystoma bishopi
  Goin, 1950
• Ambystoma californiense
  Gray, 1853
• Ambystoma cingulatum
  Cope, 1868
• Ambystoma gracile
  (Baird, 1859)
• Ambystoma jeffersonianum
  (Green, 1827)
• Ambystoma laterale
  Hallowell, 1856
• Ambystoma mabeei
  Bishop, 1928
• Ambystoma macrodactylum
  Baird, 1850
• Ambystoma maculatum
  (Shaw, 1802)
• Ambystoma mavortium
  Baird, 1850
• Ambystoma opacum
  (Gravenhorst, 1807)
• Ambystoma talpoideum (Holbrook, 1838)
• Ambystoma texanum
  (Matthes, 1855)
• Ambystoma tigrinum
  (Green, 1825)
• Dicamptodon aterrimus
  (Cope, 1868)
• Dicamptodon copei
  Nussbaum, 1970
• Dicamptodon ensatus
  (Eschscholtz, 1833)
• Dicamptodon tenebrosus
  (Baird & Girard, 1852)

Amphiumidae

Amphiuma means

Order: Caudata. Family:

• Amphiuma means
  Garden, 1821
• Amphiuma pholeter Neill, 1964
• Amphiuma tridactylum Cuvier, 1827

Cryptobranchidae

Cryptobranchus alleganiensis

Order: Caudata. Family:

• Cryptobranchus alleganiensis
  (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801)
• Cryptobranchus bishopi Grobman, 1943

Plethodontidae

Aneides lugubris

Order: Caudata. Family: Plethodontidae

• Batrachoseps altasierrae
  Jockusch, Martínez-Solano, Hansen, & Wake, 2012
• Batrachoseps attenuatus
  (Eschscholtz, 1833)
• Batrachoseps bramei
  Jockusch, Martínez-Solano, Hansen, & Wake, 2012
• Batrachoseps campi
  Marlow, Brode, & Wake, 1979
• Batrachoseps diabolicus
  Jockusch, Wake, & Yanev, 1998
• Batrachoseps gabrieli
  Wake, 1996
• Batrachoseps gavilanensis
  Jockusch, Yanev, & Wake, 2001
• Batrachoseps gregarius
  Jockusch, Wake, & Yanev, 1998
• Batrachoseps incognitus
  Jockusch, Yanev, & Wake, 2001
• Batrachoseps kawia
  Jockusch, Wake, & Yanev, 1998
• Batrachoseps luciae
  Jockusch, Yanev, & Wake, 2001
• Batrachoseps major
  Camp, 1915
• Batrachoseps minor
  Jockusch, Yanev, & Wake, 2001
• Batrachoseps nigriventris
  Cope, 1869
• Batrachoseps pacificus
  (Cope, 1865)
• Batrachoseps regius
  Jockusch, Wake, & Yanev, 1998
• Batrachoseps relictus
  Brame & Murray, 1968
• Batrachoseps robustus
  Wake, Yanev, & Hansen, 2002
• Batrachoseps simatus
  Brame & Murray, 1968
• Batrachoseps stebbinsi
  Brame & Murray, 1968
• Batrachoseps wrighti
  (Bishop, 1937)
• Eurycea aquatica
  Rose & Bush, 1963
• Eurycea arenicola
  (Stuart et al., 2020)
• Eurycea bislineata
  (Green, 1818)
• Eurycea chamberlaini
  Harrison & Guttman, 2003
• Eurycea chisholmensis
  Chippindale, Price, Wiens, & Hillis, 2000
• Eurycea cirrigera
  (Green, 1831)
• Eurycea guttolineata
  (Holbrook, 1838)
• Eurycea junaluska
  Sever, Dundee, & Sullivan, 1976
• Eurycea latitans
  Smith & Potter, 1946
• Eurycea longicauda (Green, 1818)
• Eurycea lucifuga
  Rafinesque, 1822
• Eurycea multiplicata
  (Cope, 1869)
• Eurycea nana
  Bishop, 1941
• Eurycea naufragia
  Chippindale, Price, Wiens, & Hillis, 2000
• Eurycea neotenes Bishop & Wright, 1937
• Eurycea pterophila
  Burger, Smith, & Potter, 1950
• Eurycea quadridigitata
  (Holbrook, 1842)
• Eurycea rathbuni
  (Stejneger, 1896)
• Eurycea robusta
  (Longley, 1978)
• Eurycea sosorum
  Chippindale, Price, & Hillis, 1993
• Eurycea spelaea
  (Stejneger, 1892)
• Eurycea subfluvicola Steffen, Irwin, Blair, & Bonett, 2014
• Eurycea tonkawae
  Chippindale, Price, Wiens, & Hillis, 2000
• Eurycea tridentifera
  Mitchell & Reddell, 1965
• Eurycea troglodytes
  Baker, 1957
• Eurycea tynerensis
  Moore & Hughes, 1939
• Eurycea wallacei
  (Carr, 1939)
• Eurycea waterlooensis
  Hillis, Chamberlain, Wilcox, & Chippindale, 2001
• Eurycea wilderae
  Dunn, 1920
• Gyrinophilus gulolineatus
  Brandon, 1965
• Gyrinophilus palleucus
  McCrady, 1954
• Gyrinophilus porphyriticus
  (Green, 1827)
• Gyrinophilus subterraneus
  Besharse & Holsinger, 1977
• Hemidactylium scutatum
  (Temminck, 1838)
• Pseudotriton diastictus Bishop, 1941
• Pseudotriton montanus
  Baird, 1850
• Pseudotriton ruber
  (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801)
• Stereochilus marginatus
  (Hallowell, 1856)
• Urspelerpes brucei
  Camp, Peterman, Milanovich, Lamb, Maerz, & Wake, 2009
• Aneides aeneus
  (Cope & Packard, 1881)
• Aneides ferreus
  Cope, 1869
• Aneides flavipunctatus
  (Strauch, 1870)
• Aneides hardii
  (Taylor, 1941)
• Aneides iecanus
  (Cope, 1883)
• Aneides lugubris
  (Hallowell, 1849)
• Aneides niger
  Myers & Maslin, 1948
• Aneides vagrans
  Wake & Jackman, 1999
• Desmognathus abditus
  Anderson & Tilley, 2003
• Desmognathus aeneus
  Brown & Bishop, 1947
• Desmognathus apalachicolae
  Means & Karlin, 1989
• Desmognathus aureatus
  (Martof, 1956)
• Desmognathus auriculatus
  (Holbrook, 1838)
• Desmognathus brimleyorum
  Stejneger, 1895
• Desmognathus carolinensis
  Dunn, 1916
• Desmognathus conanti
  Rossman, 1958
• Desmognathus folkertsi
  Camp, Tilley, Austin, & Marshall, 2002
• Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)
• Desmognathus imitator
  Dunn, 1927
• Desmognathus marmoratus
  (Moore, 1899)
• Desmognathus melanius
  (Martof, 1956)
• Desmognathus monticola
  Dunn, 1916
• Desmognathus ochrophaeus
  Cope, 1859
• Desmognathus ocoee
  Nicholls, 1949
• Desmognathus orestes
  Tilley & Mahoney, 1996
• Desmognathus organi
  Crespi, Browne, & Rissler, 2010
• Desmognathus planiceps
  Newman, 1955
• Desmognathus quadramaculatus
  (Holbrook, 1840)
• Desmognathus santeetlah
  Tilley, 1981
• Desmognathus welteri
  Barbour, 1950
• Desmognathus wrighti
  King, 1936
• Ensatina eschscholtzii
  Gray, 1850
• Hydromantes brunus
  Gorman, 1954
• Hydromantes platycephalus
  (Camp, 1916)
• Hydromantes shastae
  Gorman & Camp, 1953
• Phaeognathus hubrichti
  Highton, 1961
• Plethodon ainsworthi
  Lazell, 1998
• Plethodon albagula
  Grobman, 1944
• Plethodon amplus
  Highton & Peabody, 2000
• Plethodon angusticlavius
  Grobman, 1944
• Plethodon asupak
  Mead, Clayton, Nauman, Olson, & Pfrender, 2005
• Plethodon aureolus
  Highton, 1984
• Plethodon caddoensis
  Pope & Pope, 1951
• Plethodon chattahoochee
  Highton, 1989
• Plethodon cheoah
  Highton & Peabody, 2000
• Plethodon chlorobryonis
  Mittleman, 1951
• Plethodon cinereus
  (Green, 1818)
• Plethodon cylindraceus
  (Harlan, 1825)
• Plethodon dorsalis
  Cope, 1889
• Plethodon dunni
  Bishop, 1934
• Plethodon electromorphus
  Highton, 1999
• Plethodon elongatus
  Van Denburgh, 1916
• Plethodon fourchensis
  Duncan & Highton, 1979
• Plethodon glutinosus
  (Green, 1818)
• Plethodon grobmani
  Allen & Neill, 1949
• Plethodon hoffmani
  Highton, 1972
• Plethodon hubrichti
  Thurow, 1957
• Plethodon idahoensis
  Slater & Slipp, 1940
• Plethodon jordani
  Blatchley, 1901
• Plethodon kentucki
  Mittleman, 1951
• Plethodon kiamichi
  Highton, 1989
• Plethodon kisatchie
  Highton, 1989
• Plethodon larselli
  Burns, 1954
• Plethodon meridianus
  Highton & Peabody, 2000
• Plethodon metcalfi
  Brimley, 1912
• Plethodon mississippi
  Highton, 1989
• Plethodon montanus
  Highton & Peabody, 2000
• Plethodon neomexicanus
  Stebbins & Riemer, 1950
• Plethodon nettingi
  Green, 1938
• Plethodon ocmulgee
  Highton, 1989
• Plethodon ouachitae
  Dunn & Heinze, 1933
• Plethodon petraeus
  Wynn, Highton, & Jacobs, 1988
• Plethodon punctatus
  Highton, 1972
• Plethodon richmondi
  Netting & Mittleman, 1938
• Plethodon savannah
  Highton, 1989
• Plethodon sequoyah
  Highton, 1989
• Plethodon serratus
  Grobman, 1944
• Plethodon shenandoah
  Highton & Worthington, 1967
• Plethodon sherando
  Highton, 2004
• Plethodon shermani
  Stejneger, 1906
• Plethodon stormi
  Highton & Brame, 1965
• Plethodon teyahalee
  Hairston, 1950
• Plethodon vandykei
  Van Denburgh, 1906
• Plethodon variolatus
  (Gilliams, 1818)
• Plethodon vehiculum
  (Cooper, 1860)
• Plethodon ventralis
  Highton, 1997
• Plethodon virginia
  Highton, 1999
• Plethodon websteri
  Highton, 1979
• Plethodon wehrlei
  Fowler & Dunn, 1917
• Plethodon welleri
  Walker, 1931
• Plethodon yonahlossee
  Dunn, 1917

Proteidae

Order: Caudata. Family: Proteidae

• Necturus alabamensis
  Viosca, 1937
• Necturus beyeri
  Viosca, 1937
• Necturus lewisi
  Brimley, 1924
• Necturus louisianensis
  Viosca, 1938
• Necturus maculosus
  (Rafinesque, 1818)
• Necturus punctatus
  (Gibbes, 1850)

Rhyacotritonidae

Order: Caudata. Family:

• Rhyacotriton cascadae
  Good & Wake, 1992
• Rhyacotriton kezeri
  Good & Wake, 1992
• Rhyacotriton olympicus
  (Gaige, 1917)
• Rhyacotriton variegatus
  Stebbins & Lowe, 1951

Salamandridae

Order: Caudata. Family: Salamandridae

Taricha torosa

• Notophthalmus meridionalis (Cope, 1880)
• Notophthalmus perstriatus
  (Bishop, 1941)
• Notophthalmus viridescens
  (Rafinesque, 1820)
• Taricha granulosa
  (Skilton, 1849)
• Taricha rivularis
  (Twitty, 1935)
• Taricha sierrae
  (Twitty, 1942)
• Taricha torosa
  (Rathke, 1833)

Sirenidae

Order: Caudata. Family: Sirenidae

• Pseudobranchus axanthus
  Netting & Goin, 1942
• Pseudobranchus striatus
  (LeConte, 1824)
• Siren intermedia
  Barnes, 1826
• Siren lacertina
  Österdam, 1766

Frogs and Toads (Anura)

Rhinophrynus dorsalis

Ascaphidae

Order:

. Family:

• Ascaphus montanus
  Mittleman & Myers, 1949
• Ascaphus truei
  Stejneger, 1899

Bufonidae

Rhinella marina

Order:

. Family:

• Anaxyrus americanus
  (Holbrook, 1836)
• Anaxyrus baxteri
  (Porter, 1968)
• Anaxyrus boreas
  (Baird & Girard, 1852)
• Anaxyrus californicus
  (Camp, 1915)
• Anaxyrus canorus
  (Camp, 1916)
• Anaxyrus cognatus
  (Say, 1822)
• Anaxyrus debilis (Girard, 1854)
• Anaxyrus exsul
  (Myers, 1942)
• Anaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882)
• Anaxyrus hemiophrys
  (Cope, 1886)
• Anaxyrus houstonensis
  (Sanders, 1953)
• Anaxyrus microscaphus
  (Cope, 1867)
• Anaxyrus nelsoni
  (Stejneger, 1893)
• Anaxyrus punctatus
  (Baird & Girard, 1852)
• Anaxyrus quercicus
  (Holbrook, 1840)
• Anaxyrus retiformis
  (Sanders & Smith, 1951)
• Anaxyrus speciosus
  (Girard, 1854)
• Anaxyrus terrestris
  (Bonnaterre, 1789)
• Anaxyrus woodhousii
  (Girard, 1854)
• Incilius alvarius
  (Girard, 1859)
• Incilius nebulifer (Girard, 1854)
• Rhinella marina
  (Linnaeus, 1758)

Craugastoridae

Order:

. Family: Craugastoridae

• Craugastor augusti (Dugès, 1879)

Dendrobatidae

Dendrobates auratus

Order:

. Family:

• Dendrobates auratus
  (Girard, 1855)

Eleutherodactylidae

Eleutherodactylus coqui

Order:

. Family: Eleutherodactylidae

• Eleutherodactylus coqui
  Thomas, 1966
• Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides (Cope, 1877)
• Eleutherodactylus guttilatus (Cope, 1879)
• Eleutherodactylus marnockii (Cope, 1878)
• Eleutherodactylus planirostris
  (Cope, 1862)

Hylidae

Order:

. Family: Hylidae

• Acris blanchardi
  Harper, 1947
• Acris crepitans
  Baird, 1854
• Acris gryllus
  (LeConte, 1825)
• Hyla andersonii
  Baird, 1854
• Hyla arenicolor
  Cope, 1866
• Hyla avivoca
  Viosca, 1928
• Hyla chrysoscelis
  Cope, 1880
• Hyla cinerea
  (Schneider, 1799)
• Hyla femoralis
  Daudin, 1800
• Hyla gratiosa
  LeConte, 1856
• Hyla squirella
  Daudin, 1800
• Hyla versicolor
  LeConte, 1825
• Hyla wrightorum
  Taylor, 1939
• Osteopilus septentrionalis
  (Duméril & Bibron, 1841)
• Pseudacris brachyphona
  (Cope, 1889)
• Pseudacris brimleyi
  Brandt & Walker, 1933
• Pseudacris cadaverina
  (Cope, 1866)
• Pseudacris clarkii
  (Baird, 1854)
• Pseudacris crucifer
  (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)
• Pseudacris fouquettei Lemmon, Lemmon, Collins, & Cannatella, 2008
• Pseudacris hypochondriaca
  (Hallowell, 1854)
• Pseudacris illinoensis
  Smith, 1951
• Pseudacris kalmi Harper, 1955
• Pseudacris maculata
  (Agassiz, 1850)
• Pseudacris nigrita
  (LeConte, 1825)
• Pseudacris ocularis
  (Holbrook, 1838)
• Pseudacris ornata
  (Holbrook, 1836)
• Pseudacris regilla
  (Baird & Girard, 1852)
• Pseudacris sierra (Jameson, Mackey, & Richmond, 1966)
• Pseudacris streckeri
  Wright & Wright, 1933
• Pseudacris triseriata
  (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)
• Smilisca baudinii
  (Duméril & Bibron, 1841)
• Smilisca fodiens
  (Boulenger, 1882)
• Litoria caerulea
  (White, 1790)

Leptodactylidae

Order:

. Family: Leptodactylidae

• Leptodactylus fragilis (Brocchi, 1877)

Microhylidae

Hypopachus variolosus

Order:

. Family: Microhylidae

• Gastrophryne carolinensis (Holbrook, 1835)
• Gastrophryne mazatlanensis (Taylor, 1943)
• Gastrophryne olivacea (Hallowell, 1856)
• Hypopachus variolosus
  (Cope, 1866)

Pipidae

Xenopus laevis

Order:

. Family: Pipidae

• Xenopus laevis
  (Daudin, 1802)

Ranidae

Rana boylii

Order:

. Family:

• Glandirana rugosa
  (Temminck & Schlegel, 1838)
• Lithobates areolatus
  (Baird & Girard, 1852)
• Lithobates berlandieri
  (Baird, 1859)
• Lithobates blairi
  (Mecham, Littlejohn, Oldham, Brown, & Brown, 1973)
• Lithobates capito
  (LeConte, 1855)
• Lithobates catesbeianus
  (Shaw, 1802)
• Lithobates chiricahuensis
  (Platz & Mecham, 1979)
• Lithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801)
• Lithobates fisheri (Stejneger, 1893)^[3]
• Lithobates grylio
  (Stejneger, 1901)
• Lithobates heckscheri (Wright, 1924)
• Lithobates okaloosae
  (Moler, 1985)
• Lithobates onca
  (Cope, 1875)
• Lithobates palustris
  (LeConte, 1825)
• Lithobates pipiens
  (Schreber, 1782)
• Lithobates septentrionalis
  (Baird, 1854)
• Lithobates sevosus
  (Goin & Netting, 1940)
• Lithobates sphenocephalus
  (Cope, 1886)
• Lithobates sylvaticus
  (LeConte, 1825)
• Lithobates tarahumarae
  (Boulenger, 1917)
• Lithobates virgatipes
  (Cope, 1891)
• Lithobates yavapaiensis
  (Platz & Frost, 1984)
• Rana aurora
  Baird & Girard, 1852
• Rana boylii
  Baird, 1854
• Rana cascadae
  Slater, 1939
• Rana draytonii
  Baird & Girard, 1852
• Rana luteiventris
  Thompson, 1913
• Rana muscosa
  Camp, 1917
• Rana pretiosa
  Baird & Girard, 1853
• Rana sierrae
  Camp, 1917

Rhinophrynidae

Order:

. Family: Rhinophrynidae

• Rhinophrynus dorsalis
  Duméril & Bibron, 1841

Scaphiopodidae

Scaphiopus hurterii

Order:

. Family:

• Scaphiopus couchii
  Baird, 1854
• Scaphiopus holbrookii (Harlan, 1835)
• Scaphiopus hurterii
  Strecker, 1910
• Spea bombifrons
  (Cope, 1863)
• Spea hammondii (Baird, 1859)
• Spea intermontana
  (Cope, 1883)
• Spea multiplicata
  (Cope, 1863)

See also

List of amphibians native to the United States by state:

Notes

References

• Frost, D.R (2015). "United States". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. New York, USA. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
• AmphibiaWeb. Information on amphibian biology and conservation. (2012). "List of Amphibians in the United States (database query web application)". Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. Retrieved 2012-04-15.