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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.
We find that amphibians are the most threatened vertebrate class (40.7% of species are globally threatened). The updated Red List Index shows that the status of amphibians is deteriorating globally, particularly for salamanders and in the Neotropics. Disease and habitat loss drove 91% of status deteriorations between 1980 and 2004.
The first version of the catalogue was published as a book in 1985, and well received by specialists in the field. [1] [2] In 1989, the ASC gave the copyright for Amphibian Species of the World to the Herpetologists' League, and they added more amphibians to the database. The League and American Museum of Natural History put Darrel Frost in ...
The world’s frogs, salamanders, newts and other amphibians remain in serious trouble. A new global assessment has found that 41% of amphibian species that scientists have studied are threatened ...
The book provides information about 103 introduced species, with the authors defining an exotic species as any "non-native species whose presence is the result of human-mediated dispersal outside its indigenous geographic range". Within the book's coverage of exotic amphibians and reptiles, 74 of them have their origins outside the continental ...
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]
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 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Lists of amphibians" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of ...