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On January 21, 2008, Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) identified nature's most "weird, wonderful and endangered species", stating that "the EDGE amphibians are amongst the most remarkable and unusual species on the planet and yet an alarming 85% of the top 100 are receiving little or no conservation attention."
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 frog from New Guinea (Paedophryne amauensis) with a length of just 7.7 mm (0.30 in). The largest living amphibian is the 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) South China giant salamander ( Andrias sligoi ), but this is dwarfed by prehistoric temnospondyls such as Mastodonsaurus which could reach up to 6 m ...
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 African clawed frog may be an important vector and the initial source of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, a chytrid fungus that has been implicated in the drastic decline in amphibian populations in many parts of the world. [2] Unlike in many other amphibian species (including the closely related western clawed frog) where this chytrid ...
Prehistoric amphibians of Africa (3 C, 2 P) A. Amphibians of Seychelles (9 P) M. Amphibians of Mauritius (3 P) N. Amphibians of North Africa (14 P) S.
1 Africa. 2 Asia. 3 Australasia. 4 Europe. 5 North America. ... Lists of amphibians by region are lists of amphibians in a given continent, country or smaller region ...
Amphibians of the Central African Republic (34 P) Amphibians of Chile (55 P) Amphibians of China (1 C, 256 P) Amphibians of Colombia (735 P) Amphibians of Costa Rica ...