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As of September 2021, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 3160 least concern amphibian species. 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

Asiatic salamanders

  • Hida salamander (Hynobius kimurae)
  • Korean salamander (Hynobius leechii)
  • Tohoku salamander (Hynobius lichenatus)
  • Blotched salamander (Hynobius naevius)
  • Hynobius nebulosus
  • Japanese black salamander (Hynobius nigrescens)
  • Ezo salamander (Hynobius retardatus)
  • Tsushima salamander (Hynobius tsuensis)
  • Hynobius yatsui
  • Fischer's clawed salamander (Onychodactylus fischeri)
  • Japanese clawed salamander (Onychodactylus japonicus)
  • Siberian salamander (Salamandrella keyserlingii)

Mole salamanders

Salamandrids

True salamanders and newts

Proteids

Torrent salamanders

Amphiumids

Sirenids

Frogs

There are 2244 frog species assessed as least concern.

Robber frogs

Shrub frogs

Cryptic forest frogs

Rain frogs

True toads

Fleshbelly frogs

Glass frogs

Litter frogs

  • Brachytarsophrys carinense
  • Brachytarsophrys feae
  • Brachytarsophrys platyparietus
  • Mount Gadin Borneo frog (Leptobrachella mjobergi)
  • Leptobrachium abbotti
  • Chapa spadefoot toad (Leptobrachium chapaense)
  • Java spadefoot toad (Leptobrachium hasseltii)
  • Leptobrachium hendricksoni
  • Leptobrachium huashen
  • Leptobrachium liui
  • Leptobrachium montanum
  • Leptobrachium nigrops
  • Smith's litter frog (Leptobrachium smithi)
  • Leptolalax aereus
  • Leptolalax heteropus
  • Leptolalax liui
  • Leptolalax melanoleucus
  • Oshan metacarpal-tubercled toad (Leptolalax oshanensis)
  • Leptolalax pelodytoides
  • Megophrys aceras
  • Pale-shouldered horned toad (Megophrys boettgeri)
  • Megophrys glandulosa
  • Megophrys jingdongensis
  • Kuatun horned toad (Megophrys kuatunensis)
  • Glandular horned toad (Megophrys major)
  • Little horned toad (Megophrys minor)
  • Horned frog (Megophrys montana)
  • Long-nosed horned frog (Megophrys nasuta)
  • Rough-skinned horned toad (Megophrys palpebralespinosa)
  • Concave-crowned horned toad (Megophrys parva)
  • Shaping horned toad (Megophrys shapingensis)
  • Spiny-fingered horned toad (Megophrys spinata)
  • Wushan horned toad (Megophrys wushanensis)
  • Asian mountain toad (Ophryophryne microstoma)
  • Ophryophryne pachyproctus
  • Oreolalax popei
  • Oreolalax xiangchengensis
  • Scutiger boulengeri
  • Scutiger glandulatus
  • Scutiger mammatus
  • Scutiger nyingchiensis
  • Scutiger sikimmensis

Screeching frogs

Hemiphractids

Cycloramphids

  • Cycloramphus boraceiensis
  • Cycloramphus dubius
  • Cycloramphus fuliginosus
  • Cycloramphus rhyakonastes
  • Thoropa megatympanum
  • Thoropa miliaris
  • Zachaenus parvulus

Poison dart frogs

Mantellids

  • Aglyptodactylus inguinalis
  • Madagascar jumping frog (Aglyptodactylus madagascariensis)
  • Aglyptodactylus securifer
  • Blommersia angolafa
  • Mantidactylus blommersae (Blommersia blommersae)
  • Blommersia dejongi
  • Domergue's Madagascar frog (Blommersia domerguei)
  • Blommersia galani
  • Ambrana Madagascar frog (Blommersia grandisonae)
  • Blommersia kely
  • Blommersia sarotra
  • Blommersia variabilis
  • Witte's Madagascar frog (Blommersia wittei)
  • White-lipped bright-eyed frog (Boophis albilabris)
  • Spotted bright-eyed frog (Boophis albipunctatus)
  • Boophis ankaratra
  • Boophis axelmeyeri
  • Boophis bottae
  • Boophis calcaratus
  • Boophis doulioti
  • Boophis entingae
  • Forest bright-eyed frog (Boophis erythrodactylus)
  • Goudot's bright-eyed frog (Boophis goudotii)
  • Warty bright-eyed frog (Boophis guibei)
  • Ida's bright-eyed frog (Boophis idae)
  • Boophis lichenoides
  • Boophis luciae
  • Ankafana bright-eyed frog (Boophis luteus)
  • Madagascar bright-eyed frog (Boophis madagascariensis)
  • Boophis marojezensis
  • Imerina bright-eyed frog (Boophis microtympanum)
  • Boophis occidentalis
  • Eastern bright-eyed frog (Boophis opisthodon)
  • Moramanga bright-eyed frog (Boophis pauliani)
  • Boophis picturatus
  • Boophis pyrrhus
  • Central bright-eyed frog (Boophis rappiodes)
  • Reticulate bright-eyed frog (Boophis reticulatus)
  • Boophis roseipalmatus
  • Boophis septentrionalis
  • Boophis sibilans
  • Boophis tampoka
  • Boophis tasymena
  • Dumeril's bright-eyed frog (Boophis tephraeomystax)
  • Green bright-eyed frog (Boophis viridis)
  • Boophis xerophilus
  • East Betsileo Madagascar frog (Gephyromantis asper)
  • Boulenger's Madagascar frog (Gephyromantis boulengeri)
  • Grainy Madagascar frog (Gephyromantis granulatus)
  • White-spotted Madagascar frog (Gephyromantis leucomaculatus)
  • White Madagascar frog (Gephyromantis luteus)
  • Malasay grainy frog (Gephyromantis malagasius)
  • Gephyromantis moseri
  • Common Madagascar frog (Gephyromantis plicifer)
  • Massif Madagascar frog (Gephyromantis pseudoasper)
  • Gephyromantis redimitus
  • Gephyromantis sculpturatus
  • Gephyromantis tschenki
  • Brown grainy frog (Gephyromantis ventrimaculatus)
  • Gephyromantis verrucosus
  • White-lined Madagascar frog (Guibemantis albolineatus)
  • Sainte Marie Madagascar frog (Guibemantis bicalcaratus)
  • Pulsing Madagascar frog (Guibemantis depressiceps)
  • Blommers' Madagascar frog (Guibemantis flavobrunneus)
  • Free Madagascar frog (Guibemantis liber)
  • Guibemantis methueni
  • Tsarafidy Madagascar frog (Guibemantis pulcher)
  • Guibemantis timidus
  • Guibemantis tornieri
  • Madagascar bullfrog (Laliostoma labrosum)
  • Baron's mantella (Mantella baroni)
  • Brown mantella (Mantella betsileo)
  • Mantella ebenaui
  • Guibé's mantella (Mantella nigricans)
  • Andrangoloaka Madagascar frog (Mantidactylus aerumnalis)
  • Mountain Madagascar frog (Mantidactylus alutus)
  • Mantidactylus ambreensis
  • Folohy Madagascar frog (Mantidactylus argenteus)
  • Mantidactylus bellyi
  • Betsileo Madagascar frog (Mantidactylus betsileanus)
  • Two-pore Madagascar frog (Mantidactylus biporus)
  • Mantidactylus brevipalmatus
  • Mantidactylus charlotteae
  • Ankafana Madagascar frog (Mantidactylus curtus)
  • Fort Madagascar frog (Mantidactylus femoralis)
  • Grandidier's Madagascar frog (Mantidactylus grandidieri)
  • Gray Madagascar frog (Mantidactylus guttulatus)
  • Dumeril's Madagascar frog (Mantidactylus lugubris)
  • Ivohimanita Madagascar frog (Mantidactylus majori)
  • Mantidactylus melanopleura
  • Mocquard's Madagascar frog (Mantidactylus mocquardi)
  • Central Madagascar frog (Mantidactylus opiparis)
  • Warty Madagascar frog (Mantidactylus ulcerosus)
  • Mantidactylus zipperi
  • Anamalozoatra Madagascar frog (Spinomantis aglavei)
  • Spinomantis fimbriatus
  • Peracca's Madagascar frog (Spinomantis peraccae)
  • Spinomantis phantasticus

Ceratobatrachids

Fork-tongued frogs

  • Kashmir paa frog (Allopaa hazarensis)
  • Chrysopaa sternosignata
  • Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis
  • Euphlyctis ehrenbergii
  • Indian green frog (Euphlyctis hexadactylus)
  • Andaman wart frog (Fejervarya andamanensis)
  • Crab-eating frog (Fejervarya cancrivora)
  • Fejervarya iskandari
  • Kerala warty frog (Fejervarya keralensis)
  • Fejervarya kirtisinghei
  • Asian grass frog (Fejervarya limnocharis)
  • Nepal wart frog (Fejervarya nepalensis)
  • Orissa frog (Fejervarya orissaensis)
  • Pierre's wart frog (Fejervarya pierrei)
  • Malabar wart frog (Fejervarya rufescens)
  • Bombay wart frog (Fejervarya syhadrensis)
  • Terai wart frog (Fejervarya teraiensis)
  • Fejervarya verruculosa
  • Luzon wart frog (Fejervarya vittigera)
  • Jerdon's bullfrog (Hoplobatrachus crassus)
  • Crowned bullfrog (Hoplobatrachus occipitalis)
  • Chinese edible frog (Hoplobatrachus rugulosus)
  • Indian bullfrog (Hoplobatrachus tigerinus)
  • Ingerana tenasserimensis
  • Finch's wart frog (Limnonectes finchi)
  • Limnonectes fujianensis
  • Limnonectes grunniens
  • Gyldenstolpe's frog (Limnonectes gyldenstolpei)
  • Limnonectes hascheanus
  • Limnonectes kadarsani
  • Koh Chang frog (Limnonectes kohchangae)
  • Kuhl's creek frog (Limnonectes kuhlii)
  • Corrugated frog (Limnonectes laticeps)
  • Giant river frog (Limnonectes leporinus)
  • Small disked frog (Limnonectes leytensis)
  • Limnonectes microdiscus
  • Limnonectes modestus
  • Limnonectes palavanensis
  • Limnonectes plicatellus
  • Limnonectes poilani
  • Shompen frog (Limnonectes shompenorum)
  • Woodworth's frog (Limnonectes woodworthi)
  • Nanorana blanfordii
  • Nanorana liebigii
  • Nanorana parkeri
  • Nanorana polunini
  • Nanorana ventripunctata
  • Nanorana vicina
  • Sulawesian puddle frog (Occidozyga celebensis)
  • Common puddle frog (Occidozyga laevis)
  • Green puddle frog (Occidozyga lima)
  • Occidozyga magnapustulosa
  • Round-tongued floating frog (Occidozyga martensii)
  • Occidozyga semipalmata
  • Sumatran puddle frog (Occidozyga sumatrana)
  • Ombrana sikimensis
  • Indian burrowing frog (Sphaerotheca breviceps)
  • Sphaerotheca dobsonii
  • Sphaerotheca maskeyi
  • Sphaerotheca rolandae

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

Ceratophryids

Odontophrynids

Ptychadenids

  • Hildebrandtia macrotympanum
  • African ornate frog (Hildebrandtia ornata)
  • Lanza's frog (Lanzarana largeni)
  • Victoria ridged frog (Ptychadena aequiplicata)
  • Anchieta's ridged frog (Ptychadena anchietae)
  • Ansorge's ridged frog (Ptychadena ansorgii)
  • Broad-banded grass frog (Ptychadena bibroni)
  • Rough ridged frog (Ptychadena bunoderma)
  • Christy's grassland frog (Ptychadena christyi)
  • Ptychadena chrysogaster
  • Ptychadena cooperi
  • Ptychadena gansi
  • Ptychadena grandisonae
  • Ptychadena guibei
  • Ptychadena keilingi
  • Ptychadena longirostris
  • Mahnert's ridged frog (Ptychadena mahnerti)
  • Mascarene grass frog (Ptychadena mascareniensis)
  • Mozambique ridged frog (Ptychadena mossambica)
  • Ptychadena neumanni
  • Ptychadena nilotica
  • Ptychadena obscura
  • Sharp-nosed frog (Ptychadena oxyrhynchus)
  • Ptychadena perplicata
  • Perret's grassland frog (Ptychadena perreti)
  • Ptychadena porosissima
  • Ptychadena pumilio
  • Schilluk ridged frog (Ptychadena schillukorum)
  • Ptychadena stenocephala
  • Ptychadena straeleni
  • Ptychadena subpunctata
  • Dwarf grass frog (Ptychadena taenioscelis)
  • Central grassland frog (Ptychadena tellinii)
  • Ptychadena tournieri
  • Dakar grassland frog (Ptychadena trinodis)
  • Ptychadena upembae
  • Ptychadena uzungwensis

Southern frogs

Saddleback toads

  • Brazilian gold frog (Brachycephalus didactylus)
  • Pumpkin toadlet (Brachycephalus ephippium)
  • Flea-frog (Brachycephalus hermogenesi)
  • Ischnocnema bolbodactyla
  • Ischnocnema gualteri
  • Ischnocnema guentheri
  • Ischnocnema henselii
  • Ischnocnema hoehnei
  • Ischnocnema juipoca
  • Ischnocnema lactea
  • Ischnocnema nasuta
  • Ischnocnema octavioi
  • Ischnocnema parva
  • Ischnocnema venancioi

American spadefoot toads

Hylodids

  • Crossodactylus caramaschii
  • Crossodactylus gaudichaudii
  • Hylodes asper
  • Hylodes cardosoi
  • Hylodes lateristrigatus
  • Hylodes meridionalis
  • Hylodes nasus
  • Hylodes ornatus
  • Hylodes perplicatus
  • Hylodes phyllodes
  • Megaelosia goeldii

Other frog species

Gymnophiona

See also

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