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This is a list of amphibians of Great Britain. There are seven amphibian species native to Great Britain , in addition, there are a number of naturalized species. The natives comprise three newts , two toads and two frogs .
The list below largely follows Darrel Frost's Amphibian Species of the World (ASW), Version 5.5 (31 January 2011). Another classification, which largely follows Frost, but deviates from it in part is the one of AmphibiaWeb , which is run by the California Academy of Sciences and several of universities.
Amphibian Species of the World 6.2: An Online Reference (ASW) is a herpetology database. It lists the names of frogs, salamanders and other amphibians , which scientists first described each species and what year, and the animal's known range.
Cyclorana - 13 species Steindachner, 1867: Water holding frogs: Striped burrowing frog (Cyclorana alboguttata) Litoria - 64 species Tschudi, 1838: Tree frogs: White's tree frog (Litoria caerulea) Nyctimystes - 1 species Stejneger, 1916: Big eyed tree frogs: Australian lace-lid (Nyctimystes dayi ) Microhylidae - 1 sub-family, 2 genera, 19 ...
The crab-eating frog (Fejervarya cancrivora) is a frog native to south-eastern Asia including Taiwan, [2] China, Sumatra in Indonesia, [3] the Philippines and more rarely as far west as Orissa in India. [4]
The numbers of species cited above follows Frost and the total number of known (living) amphibian species as of March 31, 2019, is exactly 8,000, [11] of which nearly 90% are frogs. [ 12 ] With the phylogenetic classification, the taxon Labyrinthodontia has been discarded as it is a polyparaphyletic group without unique defining features apart ...
Every year in the early winter, a swarm of dri-fit quarter-zips descends upon some mammoth, labyrinthian hotel to whisper, whine, schmooze and booze. These are MLB’s winter meetings, an annual ...
Paedophryne amauensis, also known as the New Guinea Amau frog, is a species of microhylid frog endemic to eastern Papua New Guinea. [2] [4] At 7.7 mm (0.30 in) in snout-to-vent length, it was once considered the world's smallest known vertebrate.