Amphibians
California Tiger Salamander
The California Tiger Salamander, Ambystoma californiense, is an amphibian native to Northern California. Once considered to be a subspecies of Tiger Salamander, this specimen was recently designated as a separate species. It is classified as an endange...
Barred Tiger Salamander
The Barred Tiger Salamander, Ambystoma mavortium, is a species of salamander found from southwestern Canada in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Its range extends south through the western United States to Texas and northern Mexico....
Common Parsley Frog
The Common Parsley Frog (Pelodytes punctatus) Is a species of frog that ranges from Spain up to the North of France, including France, Spain, Portugal and a small part of Northwestern Italy. It is found in open, semi-open, and even arid landscapes tha...
Purple Frog
The Purple Frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis) is a species of frog belonging to the family Sooglossidae. It is found in the Western Ghats in India. It is also known as the Pignose Frog. It is a fairly new recognized species as it was discovered in 200...
Western Spadefoot Toad
The Western Spadefoot Toad (Spea hammondii) is a species of toad that is found in coastal California. It prefers grassland scrub and chaparral locally but could occur in oak woodlands. It is nocturnal, and activity is limited to the wet season, summer...
Mexican Burrowing Toad
The Mexican Burrowing Toad (Rhinophrynus dorsalis) is a species of frog that is found from southern Texas through Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador to Nicaragua and Costa Rica. It is, as its name suggests, a burrowing toad and spends most of it...
Common Spadefoot
The Common Spadefoot (Pelobates fuscus) is a species of toad of the family Pelobatidae. It is native to an area extending from central Europe to western Asia. It is also commonly known as the Garlic Toad, the Common Spadefoot Toad and the European Com...
Malabar Flying Frog
The Malabar Flying Frog (Rhacophorus malabaricus) is a species of moss frog found in the Western Ghats of India. The term "flying frog" refers to its ability to make gliding jumps out of treetops of up to 40 feet. It does this by expanding the webbing ...
Great Barred Frog
The Great Barred Frog (Mixophyes fasciolatus) is a species of ground-dwelling frog found in Australia. It inhabits rainforests, Antarctic beech forests or wet sclerophyll forests. This frog breeds in both streams and ponds and calls from the surroundin...
Golden Mantella
The Golden Mantella (Mantella aurantiaca) is a species of frog native to Madagascar. As suggested by the name, this frog has an aqua-green dorsal surface. The ventral surface is yellow in females, and lighter yellow in males. The inside of the thig...
Cliff Chirping Frog
The Cliff Chirping Frog (Eleutherodactylus marnockii) is a small species of frog found in the United States, in central and western Texas. They are nocturnal and spend most of their lives on limestone rock faces. Though they prefer rocky areas, they a...
Big-eyed Tree Frog
The Big-eyed Tree Frog (Leptopelis vermiculatus) is a species of frog found in Tanzania, Africa. It inhabits closed-canopy wet tropical rainforests between 2900 and 5900 feet. In literature it is sometimes referred to as the Amani Forest Tree Frog. ...
Marsh Frog
The marsh Frog (Rana ridibunda), is the largest native European species of frog. It occurs in the largest part of Europe, in Asian Russia to Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is also found in the Chinese province of Xinjiang. Its habitat is waters that are ...
Fire Salamander
The Fire Salamander (Salamandra salamandra), is considered the most well-known salamander species in Europe. It is found in forests in the hilly regions of southern and central Europe. Their prefer deciduous forests, as they like to hide in the fallen ...
Eastern Tiger Salamander
The Eastern Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum), is a species of mole salamander found throughout North America in Canada and much of the United States. Although it is common in many of the regions in which it is found, their numbers have declined hi...
Bosca's Newt
The Bosca's Newt (Triturus boscai), also known as the Iberian Newt, or Tritón Ibérico, is a species of salamander found in Portugal and Spain. It has an extensive range of habitats including temperate forests, shrubby vegetation, rivers, intermit...
Hong Kong Newt
The Hong Kong Newt (Paramesotriton hongkongensis), is the only species of salamander that is found in Hong Kong. Once thought to be endemic to the area, it has also been found along the coastal regions of the Guangdong Province. It is a protected speci...
Emperor Newt
The Emperor Newt (Tylototriton shanjing), also known as the Mandarin Newt or Mandarin Salamander, is a species of newt native to southeast Asia. They are found in the high mountain province of Yunnan, China, between 1000 and 2500 feet above sea level. ...
Marbled Newt
The Marbled Newt (Triturus marmoratus) is a terrestrial newt native to France, northern Spain, and Portugal. They are not found in much of the Pyrenees due to dry and unstable conditions. Populations are scattered in northern France due to the presence...
Palmate Newt
The Palmate Newt (Lissotriton helveticus), is a species of newt found in Great Britain and Western and Northern Europe. Its habitat includes ponds, lakes, marshes, forests, and agricultural land. It can also be found in acidic pools around moorland or ...
Alpine Newt
The Alpine Newt (Triturus alpestris), belongs to the order Salamander (Urodela or Caudata) in the class of Amphibians. The spread of the alpine newt is constricted to Central Europe and mountainous Southern Europe as well as an isolated area on the Ibe...
Smooth Newt
The Smooth Newt (Lissotriton vulgaris), also known as the Common Newt, is the most common newt species in the Triturus genus of amphibians. It is found throughout Europe except the far north, areas of Southern France, and the Iberian peninsula. In Euro...
Iberian Painted Frog
The Iberian Painted Frog (Discoglossus galganoi), is found in Portugal and Spain. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, sandy shores, arable land, and...
Majorcan Midwife Toad
The Majorcan Midwife Toad (Alytes muletensis), also known as the Ferreret or Mallorcan Midwife Toad, is native to the Balearic Island of Majorca in the Mediterranean Sea. Discovered in 1977, this species was thought to be extinct beforehand, as only fo...
Golden Toad
The Golden Toad (Bufo periglenes), was a small toad that was once abundant in a small region of high-altitude cloud-covered tropical forests above the city of Monteverde, Costa Rica. It inhabited an area of only about 20 square miles in area. It is now...
Greater Siren
The Greater Siren (Siren lacertina), is an eel-like amphibian. They are found from Washington D.C. to Florida. They are nocturnal and adults spend much of the day under debris and rocks or burrowed in mud or thick vegetation. Young are often seen amid ...
Two-toed Amphiuma
The Two-toed Amphiuma (Amphiuma means), is a snake-like salamander find primarily in southeastern Unites States. The range extends from southeastern Virginia to Florida, and west to Louisiana. The habitat is coastal plains where they can be found in ac...
Southern Torrent Salamander
The Southern Torrent Salamander (Rhyacotriton variegatus), is a species of salamander that is endemic to the United States. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, rivers, and freshwater springs. It is threatened by habitat loss. It is part of the ...
Marbled Salamander
The Marbled Salamander (Ambystoma opacum), is a common and widespread species of mole salamander found in the eastern part of the United States. They are found from southern new England to northern Florida, and west to Illinois and Texas. Its habitat i...
Hida Salamander
The Hida Salamander (Hynobius kimurae), is a species of salamander in the Hynobiidae family. It is endemic to Japan. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and rivers. Photo Copyright and Credit
Southern Dusky Salamander
The Southern Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus auriculatus), is a species of salamander native to the coastal regions of the southeastern United States, from Virginia to Texas. It prefers tannic, swampy areas near ponds or on the flood plain of streams an...
Red-backed Salamander
The Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus), or Red-back Salamander, is a small, hardy woodland salamander. It inhabits wooded slopes in Eastern North America, west to Missouri, south to North Carolina, and north from southern Quebec and the Maritim...
Southern Appalachian Salamander
The Southern Appalachian Salamander (Plethodon teyahalee), is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family. It is endemic to the United States. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Darwin's Frog
The Darwin's Frog (Rhinoderma darwinii), is a frog native to the forest streams of Chile and Argentina. It is named after Charles Darwin who discovered it on his world voyage, "Voyage of the Beagle", on the HMS Beagle. The frog is brown or green wit...
Owston's Green Tree Frog
Rhacophorus owstoni is a species of frog in the Rhacophoridae family. It is endemic to Japan. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, intermittent fres...
Great Plains Narrowmouth Toad
The Great Plains Narrowmouth Toad (Gastrophryne olivacea), is a species of frog in the Microhylidae family. They are found throughout much of the south central United States from the state of Nebraska south through Texas, and into northern Mexico. Thou...
Dyscophus guineti
Dyscophus guineti is a species of frog in the Microhylidae family. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater ...
Eastern Narrowmouth Toad
The Eastern Narrowmouth Toad (Gastrophryne carolinensis), is a species of microhylid frog. It is found in the United States, from southern Maryland to the Florida keys, west to Missouri and Texas. While not a true toad, they are so called because they ...
Green Skeleton Frog
The Green Skeleton Frog (Boophis jaegeri), is a species of frog in the Mantellidae family. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, plantations, and heavily degraded former forest. It ...
Common Eastern Froglet
The Common Eastern Froglet (Crinia signifera), is a very common ground-dwelling frog found in Australia. It ranges from South eastern Australia, from Adelaide to Melbourne, up the eastern coast to Brisbane. It also inhabits a majority of Tasmania. It b...
Yellow-banded Poison Dart Frog
The Yellow-banded Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates leucomelas), or Yellow-banded Poison Frog, is a poison dart frog found in the northern part of South America in Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil. This amphibian is normally found in very humid conditions on t...
Black-legged Dart Frog
The Black-legged Dart Frog (Phyllobates bicolor), also known as the Bi-colored Dart Frog or Neari in Choco, is the second most toxic of the wild poison dart frogs. It lives in the lowland forests in the Choco area in western Colombia, along the San Jua...
Kokoe Poison Dart Frog
The Kokoe Poison Dart Frog (Phyllobates aurotaenia), is a poison dart frog species found in the Atrato and San Juan drainages of Colombia. They are the smallest of the three toxic members of the Phyllobates genus. Although small, it is just as toxic as...
Dyeing Dart Frog
The Dyeing Dart Frog (Dendrobates tinctorius), is a species of poison dart frog. This species is distributed throughout the eastern portion of the Guiana Shield, including parts of Guyana, Suriname, Brazil, and nearly all of French Guiana. It exists in...
Asian Giant Toad
The Asian Giant Toad (Bufo asper), sometimes known as the River Toad, is a large toad native to southeast Asia. It is generally a dark green, black or brown in color, and is heavily covered in tubercles. They can grow to lengths greater than 8.5 inc...
Leptopelis barbouri
Leptopelis barbouri is a species of tree frog in the Hyperoliidae family. It is endemic to Tanzania. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist mountains, rivers, freshwater marshes, and interm...
Waxy Monkey Leaf Frog
The Waxy Monkey Leaf Frog (Phyllomedusa sauvagii), is a hylid frog belonging to the subfamily of South and Central American leaf frogs, Phyllomedusinae. It inhabits the dry prairie (Chaco) of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay. This subfamily cont...
Cuban Tree Frog
The Cuban Tree Frog (Osteopilus septentrionalis), is the largest species of tree frog in North America. It is native to Cuba and neighboring Caribbean islands. It has become increasingly numerous in central to southern Florida, where it was accidentall...
Japanese Tree Frog
The Japanese Tree Frog (Hyla japonica), is a species of tree frog belonging to the genus Hyla. The species is distributed from HokkaidÅ to Yakushima in Japan and from Korea along the Ussuri River to northeastern China. The journalist Toyohiro Aki...
Stoney Creek Frog
The Stoney Creek Frog (Litoria wilcoxi), is a ground dwelling tree frog of the family Hylidae. It is native to Eastern Australia. This species is found in woodland, rainforest and sclerophyll forest. It is normally associated with rocky flowing streams...
Fleischmann's Glass Frog
The Fleischmann's Glass Frog (Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni), is a species of frog in the Centrolenidae family. It is found in Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Suriname. Its natural...
Colorado River Toad
The Colorado River Toad (Bufo alvarius), also known as the Sonoran Desert Toad, is a psychoactive toad found in the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. In California, Arizona, and New Mexico it is illegal for individuals to remove this sp...
Japanese Common Toad
The Japanese Common Toad (Bufo japonicus) is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family. It is endemic to Japan. Its natural habitats are sub-arctic forests, temperate forests, temperate shrubland, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater mar...
Asiatic Toad
The Asiatic Toad (Bufo gargarizans), is a species of toad found in East Asia. It is common in China and portions of the Russian Far East, but relatively rare on the Korean Peninsula. Asiatic toads are also found on the Ryukyu Islands of southern Japan,...
Common Toad
The Common Toad (Bufo bufo), or European Toad is widespread throughout Europe, with the exception of Ireland and some Mediterranean islands. Its easterly range extends to Irkutsk in Siberia and its southerly range includes parts of northwestern Africa ...
Panamanian Golden Frog
The Panamanian Golden Frog (Atelopus zeteki), is an endangered frog which was endemic to Panama. While the IUCN lists this species as "critically endangered", it may have become extinct in the wild since 2006. Individuals have been collected for breedi...
African Common Toad
The African Common Toad (Amietophrynus gutturalis), also called the Gutteral Toad, is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, ...
Hochstetter's Frog
Hochstetter's Frog (Leiopelma hochstetteri), is a species of primitive frog found in New Zealand. It is one of only four species belonging to the ancient family Leiopelmatidae. It is found only in the northern half of the North Island of New Zealand, i...
Tyrrhenian Painted Frog
The Tyrrhenian Painted Frog (Discoglossus sardus), is a species of frog in the Discoglossidae family. It is found in France and Italy. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshw...
Common Midwife Toad
The Common Midwife Toad (Alytes obstetricans), also known as the Sapo Partero Comun, is a species of frog in the family Discoglossidae. It is found in Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, and the United K...
Yellow-bellied Toad
The Yellow-bellied Toad (Bombina variegata), is a species of fire-bellied toads belonging to the order of Anura, and the family Bombinatoridae. It dwells in mountainous and hilly countries in middle and southern Europe. It is widely spread across the h...
Oriental Fire-bellied Toad
The Oriental Fire-bellied Toad (Bombina orientalis), is a small semi-aquatic frog species found in Korea, northeastern China and adjacent parts of Russia. An introduced population exists near Beijing. Like other Bombina species, B. orientalis is mostly...
European Fire-bellied Toad
The European Fire-bellied Toad (Bombina bombina), is a species of fire-bellied toad native to mainland Europe. Fire-Bellied toads have a bright lime green dorsal traversed by black spots, and orange to bright red bellies with black bars and stripes....