List of least concern amphibians

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2 extinct in the wild amphibian species (0.03%)545 critically endangered amphibian species (8.4%)848 endangered amphibian species (13%)670 vulnerable amphibian species (10%)402 near threatened amphibian species (6.2%)2458 least concern amphibian species (38%)1567 data deficient amphibian species (24%)
Amphibian species (IUCN, 2016-2)
  • 6492 extant species have been evaluated
  • 4925 of those are fully assessed[a]
  • 2860 are not threatened at present[b]
  • 2063 to 3630 are threatened[c]
  • 35 to 148 are extinct or extinct in the wild:
    • 33 extinct (EX) species[d]
    • 2 extinct in the wild (EW)
    • 113 possibly extinct [CR(PE)]
    • 0 possibly extinct in the wild [CR(PEW)]
  1. ^ excludes data deficient evaluations.
  2. ^ NT and LC.
  3. ^ Threatened comprises CR, EN and VU. Upper estimate additionally includes DD.
  4. ^ Chart omits extinct (EX) species

As of September 2021, the

amphibian species.[1]
38% of all evaluated amphibian species are listed as least concern. No subpopulations of amphibians have been evaluated by the IUCN.

This is a complete list of least concern amphibian species as evaluated by the IUCN.

Salamanders

There are 162 salamander species assessed as least concern.

Lungless salamanders

  • Sacramento Mountain salamander
    (Aneides hardii)
  • Arboreal salamander
    (Aneides lugubris)
  • California slender salamander
    (Batrachoseps attenuatus)
  • Gabilan Mountains slender salamander
    (Batrachoseps gavilanensis)
  • Gregarious slender salamander
    (Batrachoseps gregarius)
  • Santa Lucia Mountains slender salamander
    (Batrachoseps luciae)
  • Garden slender salamander
    (Batrachoseps major)
  • Black-bellied slender salamander
    (Batrachoseps nigriventris)
  • Channel Islands slender salamander
    (Batrachoseps pacificus)
  • Peter's climbing salamander
    (Bolitoglossa adspersa)
  • Alberch's salamander
    (Bolitoglossa alberchi)
  • Nauta salamander
    (Bolitoglossa altamazonica)
  • Two-lined climbing salamander
    (Bolitoglossa biseriata)
  • Millville climbing salamander
    (Bolitoglossa cerroensis)
  • La Loma salamander
    (Bolitoglossa colonnea)
  • Ecuadorian climbing salamander
    (Bolitoglossa equatoriana)
  • Paramo Frontino salamander
    (Bolitoglossa hypacra)
  • Mexican climbing salamander
    (Bolitoglossa mexicana)
  • Cope's climbing salamander
    (Bolitoglossa morio)
  • San Gil climbing salamander
    (Bolitoglossa nicefori)
  • Southern banana salamander
    (Bolitoglossa occidentalis)
  • Peru mushroomtongue salamander (Bolitoglossa peruviana)
  • Ramos' mushroomtongue salamander (Bolitoglossa ramosi)
  • Robust climbing salamander
    (Bolitoglossa robusta)
  • Northern banana salamander
    (Bolitoglossa rufescens)
  • Cocle salamander
    (Bolitoglossa schizodactyla)
  • Cukra climbing salamander
    (Bolitoglossa striatula)
  • Yarumal climbing salamander
    (Bolitoglossa vallecula)
  • Yucatán mushroomtongue salamander
    (Bolitoglossa yucatana)
  • Apalachicola dusky salamander
    (Desmognathus apalachicolae)
  • Southern dusky salamander
    (Desmognathus auriculatus)
  • Ouachita dusky salamander
    (Desmognathus brimleyorum)
  • Carolina mountain dusky salamander
    (Desmognathus carolinensis)
  • Dusky salamander (Desmognathus fuscus)
  • Imitator salamander
    (Desmognathus imitator)
  • Shovelnose salamander
    (Desmognathus marmoratus)
  • Seal salamander
    (Desmognathus monticola)
  • Allegheny Mountain dusky salamander
    (Desmognathus ochrophaeus)
  • Ocoee salamander
    (Desmognathus ocoee)
  • Blue Ridge dusky salamander
    (Desmognathus orestes)
  • Blackbelly salamander
    (Desmognathus quadramaculatus)
  • Santeetlah dusky salamander
    (Desmognathus santeetlah)
  • Black mountain salamander
    (Desmognathus welteri)
  • Pygmy salamander
    (Desmognathus wrighti)
  • Eschscholtz salamander
    (Ensatina eschscholtzii)
  • Northern two-lined salamander
    (Eurycea bislineata)
  • Southern two-lined salamander
    (Eurycea cirrigera)
  • Three-lined salamander
    (Eurycea guttolineata)
  • Longtail salamander (Eurycea longicauda)
  • Spotted-tail salamander
    (Eurycea lucifuga)
  • Many-ribbed salamander
    (Eurycea multiplicata)
  • Dwarf salamander
    (Eurycea quadridigitata)
  • Grotto salamander
    (Eurycea spelaea)
  • Blue Ridge two-lined salamander
    (Eurycea wilderae)
  • Spring salamander
    (Gyrinophilus porphyriticus)
  • Four-toed salamander
    (Hemidactylium scutatum)
  • Mount Lyell salamander
    (Hydromantes platycephalus)
  • Korean crevice salamander
    (Karsenia koreana)
  • Nototriton abscondens
  • Oedipina alleni
  • Gamboa worm salamander (Oedipina complex)
  • Costa Rica worm salamander (Oedipina cyclocauda)
  • Central American worm salamander (Oedipina elongata)
  • Oedipina pacificensis
  • Colombian worm salamander (Oedipina parvipes)
  • Taylor's worm salamander (Oedipina taylori)
  • Western slimy salamander
    (Plethodon albagula)
  • Ozark zigzag salamander
    (Plethodon angusticlavius)
  • Red-backed salamander
    (Plethodon cinereus)
  • White-spotted slimy salamander
    (Plethodon cylindraceus)
  • Northern zigzag salamander
    (Plethodon dorsalis)
  • Dunn's salamander
    (Plethodon dunni)
  • Northern ravine salamander
    (Plethodon electromorphus)
  • Northern slimy salamander
    (Plethodon glutinosus)
  • Valley and ridge salamander
    (Plethodon hoffmani)
  • Coeur d'Alene salamander
    (Plethodon idahoensis)
  • Cumberland Plateau salamander
    (Plethodon kentucki)
  • Louisiana slimy salamander
    (Plethodon kisatchie)
  • Southern gray-cheeked salamander
    (Plethodon metcalfi)
  • Northern gray-cheeked salamander
    (Plethodon montanus)
  • Ravine salamander
    (Plethodon richmondi)
  • Southern red-backed salamander
    (Plethodon serratus)
  • Southern Appalachian salamander
    (Plethodon teyahalee)
  • Van Dyke's salamander
    (Plethodon vandykei)
  • Western redback salamander
    (Plethodon vehiculum)
  • Southern zigzag salamander
    (Plethodon ventralis)
  • Webster's salamander
    (Plethodon websteri)
  • Wehrle's salamander
    (Plethodon wehrlei)
  • Yonahlossee salamander
    (Plethodon yonahlossee)
  • Pseudoeurycea mixteca
  • Mud salamander
    (Pseudotriton montanus)
  • Red salamander
    (Pseudotriton ruber)
  • Many-lined salamander
    (Stereochilus marginatus)
  • Patch-nosed salamander
    (Urspelerpes brucei)

Asiatic salamanders

Mole salamanders

  • Ringed salamander
    (Ambystoma annulatum)
  • Northwestern salamander
    (Ambystoma gracile)
  • Jefferson salamander
    (Ambystoma jeffersonianum)
  • Blue-spotted salamander
    (Ambystoma laterale)
  • Mabee's salamander
    (Ambystoma mabeei)
  • Long-toed salamander
    (Ambystoma macrodactylum)
  • Spotted salamander
    (Ambystoma maculatum)
  • Barred tiger salamander
    (Ambystoma mavortium)
  • Marbled salamander
    (Ambystoma opacum)
  • Tarahumara salamander
    (Ambystoma rosaceum)
  • Mole salamander (Ambystoma talpoideum)
  • Small-mouth salamander
    (Ambystoma texanum)
  • Tiger salamander
    (Ambystoma tigrinum)
  • Plateau tiger salamander
    (Ambystoma velasci)
  • Idaho giant salamander
    (Dicamptodon aterrimus)
  • Cope's giant salamander
    (Dicamptodon copei)
  • Coastal giant salamander
    (Dicamptodon tenebrosus)

Salamandrids

True salamanders and newts

  • Japanese fire belly newt
    (Cynops pyrrhogaster)
  • Corsican brook salamander
    (Euproctus montanus)
  • Chuxiong fire-bellied newt (Hypselotriton cyanurus)
  • Oriental fire-bellied newt (Hypselotriton orientalis)
  • Alpine newt
    (Ichthyosaura alpestris)
  • Bosca's newt
    (Lissotriton boscai)
  • Palmate newt
    (Lissotriton helveticus)
  • Italian newt
    (Lissotriton italicus)
  • Carpathian newt
    (Lissotriton montandoni)
  • Smooth newt
    (Lissotriton vulgaris)
  • Eastern newt
    (Notophthalmus viridescens)
  • Southern banded newt
    (Ommatotriton vittatus)
  • Spotted paddle-tail newt
    (Pachytriton brevipes)
  • Paddletail newt
    (Pachytriton labiatus)
  • Chinese warty newt
    (Paramesotriton chinensis)
  • Alpine salamander
    (Salamandra atra)
  • Corsican fire salamander
    (Salamandra corsica)
  • Fire salamander
    (Salamandra salamandra)
  • Northern spectacled salamander (Salamandrina perspicillata)
  • Spectacled salamander
    (Salamandrina terdigitata)
  • Rough-skinned newt
    (Taricha granulosa)
  • Red-bellied newt
    (Taricha rivularis)
  • Sierra newt
    (Taricha sierra)
  • California newt
    (Taricha torosa)
  • Italian crested newt
    (Triturus carnifex)
  • Northern crested newt
    (Triturus cristatus)
  • Southern crested newt
    (Triturus karelinii)
  • Marbled newt
    (Triturus marmoratus)
  • Himalayan newt (Tylototriton verrucosus)

Proteids

  • Gulf Coast waterdog
    (Necturus beyeri)
  • Common mudpuppy
    (Necturus maculosus)
  • Dwarf waterdog
    (Necturus punctatus)

Torrent salamanders

  • Southern torrent salamander
    (Rhyacotriton variegatus)

Amphiumids

Sirenids

  • Southern dwarf siren
    (Pseudobranchus axanthus)
  • Northern dwarf siren
    (Pseudobranchus striatus)
  • Lesser siren
    (Siren intermedia)
  • Greater siren
    (Siren lacertina)

Frogs

There are 2244 frog species assessed as least concern.

Robber frogs

Shrub frogs

Cryptic forest frogs

Rain frogs

  • Strawberry rain frog (Breviceps acutirostris)
  • Breviceps adspersus
  • Breviceps fichus
  • Black rain frog (Breviceps fuscus)
  • Mountain rain frog
    (Breviceps montanus)
  • Mozambique rain frog
    (Breviceps mossambicus)
  • Namaqua rain frog
    (Breviceps namaquensis)
  • Power's Rain Frog (Breviceps poweri)
  • Rose's rain frog
    (Breviceps rosei)
  • Whistling rain frog
    (Breviceps sopranus)
  • Plaintive rain frog
    (Breviceps verrucosus)
  • Krefft's warty frog
    (Callulina kreffti)
  • Spelaeophryne methneri

True toads

Fleshbelly frogs

Glass frogs

Litter frogs

Screeching frogs

Hemiphractids

Cycloramphids

Poison dart frogs

Mantellids

Ceratobatrachids

Fork-tongued frogs

Alytids

Narrow-mouthed frogs

True frogs

Australian water frogs

  • Sandhill frog
    (Arenophryne rotunda)
  • Pouched frog
    (Assa darlingtoni)
  • Bilingual frog
    (Crinia bilingua)
  • Desert froglet
    (Crinia deserticola)
  • Quacking frog
    (Crinia georgiana)
  • Glauert's froglet
    (Crinia glauerti)
  • Sign-bearing froglet
    (Crinia insignifera)
  • Moss froglet
    (Crinia nimbus)
  • Eastern sign-bearing froglet
    (Crinia parinsignifera)
  • False western froglet
    (Crinia pseudinsignifera)
  • Remote froglet
    (Crinia remota)
  • Streambank froglet
    (Crinia riparia)
  • Common eastern froglet
    (Crinia signifera)
  • Small western froglet
    (Crinia subinsignifera)
  • Tasmanian froglet
    (Crinia tasmaniensis)
  • Smooth froglet (Geocrinia laevis)
  • Lea's frog (Geocrinia leai)
  • Karri frog
    (Geocrinia rosea)
  • Eastern smooth frog
    (Geocrinia victoriana)
  • Nicholl's toadlet
    (Metacrinia nichollsi)
  • Mixophyes carbinensis
  • Mixophyes coggeri
  • Great barred frog
    (Mixophyes fasciolatus)
  • Northern barred frog
    (Mixophyes schevilli)
  • Turtle frog
    (Myobatrachus gouldii)
  • Haswell's frog
    (Paracrinia haswelli)
  • Red-backed toadlet
    (Pseudophryne coriacea)
  • Dendy's toadlet
    (Pseudophryne dendyi)
  • Douglas' toad
    (Pseudophryne douglasi)
  • Günther's toadlet
    (Pseudophryne guentheri)
  • Large toadlet
    (Pseudophryne major)
  • Orange-crowned toadlet
    (Pseudophryne occidentalis)
  • Copper-backed brood frog
    (Pseudophryne raveni)
  • Pseudophryne semimarmorata
  • Montane toadlet
    (Uperoleia altissima)
  • Derby toadlet
    (Uperoleia aspera)
  • Northern toadlet
    (Uperoleia borealis)
  • Small-headed toadlet
    (Uperoleia capitulata)
  • Fat toadlet
    (Uperoleia crassa)
  • Dusky toadlet
    (Uperoleia fusca)
  • Glandular toadlet
    (Uperoleia glandulosa)
  • Flood plain toadlet
    (Uperoleia inundata)
  • Smooth toadlet
    (Uperoleia laevigata)
  • Stonemason's toadlet
    (Uperoleia lithomoda)
  • Littlejohn's toadlet
    (Uperoleia littlejohni)
  • Tanami toadlet
    (Uperoleia micromeles)
  • Mimic toadlet
    (Uperoleia mimula)
  • Small toadlet
    (Uperoleia minima)
  • Mjoberg's toadlet
    (Uperoleia mjobergii)
  • Wrinkled toadlet
    (Uperoleia rugosa)
  • Russell's toadlet
    (Uperoleia russelli)
  • Mole toadlet
    (Uperoleia talpa)
  • Blacksoil toadlet
    (Uperoleia trachyderma)

Puddle frogs

Hylids

Includes tree frog species and their allies.

African reed frogs

Tongueless frogs

  • Congo dwarf clawed frog (Hymenochirus boettgeri)
  • Western dwarf clawed frog (Hymenochirus curtipes)
  • Arrabal's Suriname toad
    (Pipa arrabali)
  • Albina Suriname toad (Pipa aspera)
  • Carvalho's Suriname toad
    (Pipa carvalhoi)
  • Sabana Suriname toad
    (Pipa parva)
  • Common Suriname toad
    (Pipa pipa)
  • Utinga Suriname toad (Pipa snethlageae)
  • Merlin's dwarf gray frog
    (Pseudhymenochirus merlini)
  • Andre's clawed frog
    (Xenopus andrei)
  • Marsabit clawed frog
    (Xenopus borealis)
  • Eritrea clawed frog
    (Xenopus clivii)
  • Cameroon clawed frog
    (Xenopus epitropicalis)
  • Fraser's clawed frog
    (Xenopus fraseri)
  • African clawed frog
    (Xenopus laevis)
  • Müller's platanna
    (Xenopus muelleri)
  • Peters' platanna
    (Xenopus petersii)
  • Bouchia clawed frog
    (Xenopus pygmaeus)
  • Western clawed frog
    (Xenopus tropicalis)
  • Kivu clawed frog
    (Xenopus vestitus)
  • Lake Victoria clawed frog (Xenopus victorianus)
  • De Witte's clawed frog
    (Xenopus wittei)

Pyxicephalids

  • Angola river frog
    (Amietia angolensis)
  • Amietia desaegeri
  • Sani pass frog
    (Amietia dracomontana)
  • Cape river frog
    (Amietia fuscigula)
  • Natal Drakensberg frog (Amietia hymenopus)
  • Amietia vandijki
  • Molo frog (Amietia wittei)
  • Hewitt's moss frog
    (Anhydrophryne hewitti)
  • Bainskloof moss frog
    (Arthroleptella bicolor)
  • De Villiers' moss frog
    (Arthroleptella villiersi)
  • Aubria masako
  • Aubria occidentalis
  • Aubria subsigillata
  • Boettger's dainty frog
    (Cacosternum boettgeri)
  • Karoo dainty frog
    (Cacosternum karooicum)
  • Cacosternum kinangopensis
  • Namaqua caco
    (Cacosternum namaquense)
  • Bronze caco
    (Cacosternum nanum)
  • Mountain caco
    (Cacosternum parvum)
  • Flat caco
    (Cacosternum platys)
  • Cacosternum plimptoni
  • Striped caco
    (Cacosternum striatum)
  • African bullfrog
    (Pyxicephalus adspersus)
  • Parry's bullfrog (Pyxicephalus angusticeps)
  • Edible bullfrog
    (Pyxicephalus edulis)
  • Calabresi's bullfrog
    (Pyxicephalus obbianus)
  • Banded stream frog
    (Strongylopus bonaespei)
  • Striped stream frog (Strongylopus fasciatus)
  • Fuelleborn's stream frog
    (Strongylopus fuelleborni)
  • Gray's stream frog
    (Strongylopus grayii)
  • Strongylopus merumontanus
  • Namaqua stream frog
    (Strongylopus springbokensis)
  • Wager's stream frog
    (Strongylopus wageri)
  • Common sand frog
    (Tomopterna cryptotis)
  • Delalande's sand frog
    (Tomopterna delalandii)
  • Tomopterna elegans
  • Gallmann's sand frog (Tomopterna gallmanni)
  • Tomopterna kachowskii
  • Knocking sand frog
    (Tomopterna krugerensis)
  • Tomopterna luganga
  • Marbled sand frog
    (Tomopterna marmorata)
  • Natal sand frog
    (Tomopterna natalensis)
  • Tandy's sand frog
    (Tomopterna tandyi)
  • Rough sand frog
    (Tomopterna tuberculosa)
  • Wamba sand frog (Tomopterna wambensis)

Australian ground frogs

  • Western spotted frog
    (Heleioporus albopunctatus)
  • Western marsh frog
    (Heleioporus barycragus)
  • Moaning frog
    (Heleioporus eyrei)
  • Plain frog (Heleioporus inornatus)
  • Sand frog
    (Heleioporus psammophilus)
  • Lechriodus aganoposis
  • Fletcher's frog
    (Lechriodus fletcheri)
  • Lechriodus melanopyga
  • Lechriodus platyceps
  • Marbled frog
    (Limnodynastes convexiusculus)
  • Flat-headed frog
    (Limnodynastes depressus)
  • Western bullfrog (Limnodynastes dorsalis)
  • Limnodynastes dumerilii
  • Long-thumbed frog
    (Limnodynastes fletcheri)
  • Giant banjo frog
    (Limnodynastes interioris)
  • Woodworker frog
    (Limnodynastes lignarius)
  • Striped marsh frog
    (Limnodynastes peronii)
  • Salmon-striped frog
    (Limnodynastes salmini)
  • Spotted grass frog
    (Limnodynastes tasmaniensis)
  • Northern banjo frog
    (Limnodynastes terraereginae)
  • White-footed frog
    (Neobatrachus albipes)
  • Northern burrowing frog
    (Neobatrachus aquilonius)
  • Trilling frog
    (Neobatrachus centralis)
  • Tawny frog
    (Neobatrachus fulvus)
  • Kunapalari frog
    (Neobatrachus kunapalari)
  • Humming frog
    (Neobatrachus pelobatoides)
  • Painted burrowing frog
    (Neobatrachus pictus)
  • Sudell's frog
    (Neobatrachus sudelli)
  • Shoemaker frog
    (Neobatrachus sutor)
  • Goldfield's bull frog
    (Neobatrachus wilsmorei)
  • Crucifix toad
    (Notaden bennettii)
  • Northern spadefoot toad
    (Notaden melanoscaphus)
  • Desert spadefoot toad
    (Notaden nichollsi)
  • Ornate burrowing frog
    (Platyplectrum ornatum)
  • Spencer's burrowing frog (Platyplectrum spenceri)

Ceratophryids

  • Brazilian horned frog
    (Ceratophrys aurita)
  • Venezuelan horned frog
    (Ceratophrys calcarata)
  • Surinam horned frog
    (Ceratophrys cornuta)
  • Cranwell's horned frog
    (Ceratophrys cranwelli)
  • Chacophrys pierottii
  • Lepidobatrachus laevis
  • Lepidobatrachus llanensis

Odontophrynids

Ptychadenids

Southern frogs

Saddleback toads

American spadefoot toads

  • Couch's spadefoot toad
    (Scaphiopus couchii)
  • Scaphiopus holbrookii
  • Hurter's spadefoot toad
    (Scaphiopus hurterii)
  • Plains spadefoot toad
    (Spea bombifrons)
  • Great Basin spadefoot
    (Spea intermontana)
  • New Mexico spadefoot toad
    (Spea multiplicata)

Hylodids

Other frog species

Gymnophiona

See also

References

  1. ^ "IUCN Red List version 2016-2". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Retrieved 8 September 2016.


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