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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.
AmphibiaWeb's goal is to provide a single page for every species of amphibian in the world so research scientists, citizen scientists and conservationists can collaborate. [1] It added its 7000th animal in 2012, a glass frog from Peru. [2] [3] As of 2022, it hosted more than 8,400 species located worldwide. [4] [5]
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.
The smallest amphibian (and vertebrate) in the world is a microhylid frog from New Guinea (Paedophryne amauensis) first discovered in 2012. It has an average length of 7.7 mm (0.30 in) and is part of a genus that contains four of the world's ten smallest frog species. [39]
This is a list of amphibians of Europe. It includes all amphibians currently found in Europe . It does not include species found only in captivity or extinct in Europe , except where there is some doubt about this, nor does it currently include species introduced in recent decades.
Caecilia is a genus of amphibians in the family Caeciliidae. Species. Binomial name and author ... Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference.
[1] [2] This family was formerly considered part of the family Ranidae. [1] Family Pyxicephalidae. Subfamily Cacosterninae [4] Genus Amietia (16 species) Genus Anhydrophryne (3 species) Genus Arthroleptella (10 species) – moss frogs; Genus Cacosternum (16 species) Genus Microbatrachella (monotypic) – micro frog; Genus Natalobatrachus ...
The genus Atelopus houses the harlequin toads, which are considered the most threatened amphibians in the world. [6] It's presumed that the harlequin toads will ultimately be the first amphibian genus to lose all of its members to extinction. [7] Starry night toads are one of ~130 Atelopus species presently described by science.