List of least concern amphibians

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Template:IUCN amphibian chart As of December 2025, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 3733 least concern amphibian species.[1] 46.4% of all evaluated amphibian species are listed as least concern.

This is a complete list of least concern amphibian species as evaluated by the IUCN, last substantially updated September 2016.

Salamanders

Asiatic salamanders

  • Hida salamander (Hynobius kimurae)
  • Korean salamander (Hynobius leechii)
  • Tohoku salamander (Hynobius lichenatus)
  • Mitsyama salamander (Hynobius nebulosus)
  • Japanese black salamander (Hynobius nigrescens)
  • Ezo salamander (Hynobius retardatus)
  • Yiwu salamander (Hynobius yiwuensis)
  • Wushan salamander (Liua shihi)
  • Japanese clawed salamander (Onychodactylus japonicus)
  • Korean clawed salamander (Onychodactylus koreanus)
  • Tohuku clawed salamander (Onychodactylus nipponoborealis)
  • Siberian salamander (Salamandrella keyserlingii)
  • Far East salamander (Salamandrella tridactyla)

Sirens

  • Southern dwarf siren (Pseudobranchus axanthus)
  • Northern dwarf siren (Pseudobranchus striatus)
  • Lesser siren (Siren intermedia)
  • Greater siren (Siren lacertina)

True salamanders and newts

  • Pyrenean brook salamander (Calotriton asper)
  • Corsican brook salamander (Euproctus montanus)
  • Oriental fire-bellied newt (Hypselotriton orientalis)
  • Bosca's newt (Lissotriton boscai)
  • Greek smooth newt (Lissotriton graecus)
  • Palmate newt (Lissotriton helveticus)
  • Italian newt (Lissotriton italicus)
  • Caucasian smooth newt (Lissotriton lantzi)
  • Portuguese smooth newt (Lissotriton maltzani)
  • Carpathian newt (Lissotriton montandoni)
  • Schmidtler's smooth newt (Lissotriton schmidtleri)
  • Smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris)
  • Alpine newt (Mesotriton alpestris)
  • Anatolia newt (Neurergus strauchii)
  • Eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens)
  • Anatolian banded newt (Ommatotriton nesterovi)
  • Southern banded newt (Ommatotriton vittatus)
  • Paddle-tailed newt (Pachytriton brevipes)
  • Pingchi's newt (Pachytriton granulosus)
  • Chinese warty newt (Paramesotriton chinensis)
  • Vietnam warty newt (Paramesotriton deloustali)
  • Paramesotriton wulingensis
  • Algerian ribbed newt (Pleurodeles nebulosus)
  • Iberian ribbed newt (Pleurodeles waltl)
  • Alpine salamander (Salamandra atra)
  • Corsican fire salamander (Salamandra corsica)
  • Near Eastern fire salamander (Salamandra infraimmaculata)
  • Spectacled salamander (Salamandrina terdigitata)
  • Rough-skinned newt (Taricha granulosa)
  • Sierra newt (Taricha sierra)
  • Anatolian crested newt (Triturus anatolicus)
  • Great crested newt (Triturus cristatus)
  • Danube crested newt (Triturus dobrogicus)
  • Buresch's crested newt (Triturus ivanbureschi)
  • Southern crested newt (Triturus karelinii)
  • Tylototriton anguliceps
  • Tylototriton podichthys
  • Uéno's knobby newt (Tylototriton uyenoi)

Mole salamanders

  • Ringed salamander (Ambystoma annulatum)
  • Streamside salamander (Ambystoma barbouri)
  • Northwestern salamander (Ambystoma gracile)
  • Jefferson salamander (Ambystoma jeffersonianum)
  • Blue-spotted salamander (Ambystoma laterale)
  • Mabee's salamander (Ambystoma mabeei)
  • Long-toed salamander (Ambystoma macrodactylum)
  • Spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum)
  • Barred tiger salamander (Ambystoma mavortium)
  • Marbled salamander (Ambystoma opacum)
  • Tarahumara salamander (Ambystoma rosaceum)
  • Mole salamander (Ambystoma talpoideum)
  • Small-mouth salamander (Ambystoma texanum)
  • Eastern tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum)
  • Plateau tiger salamander (Ambystoma velasci)
  • Idaho giant salamander (Dicamptodon aterrimus)
  • Cope's giant salamander (Dicamptodon copei)
  • Coastal giant salamander (Dicamptodon tenebrosus)

Olm, waterdogs

  • Gulf Coast waterdog (Necturus beyeri)
  • Neuse River waterdog (Necturus lewisi)
  • Red River mudpuppy (Necturus louisianensis)
  • Common mudpuppy (Necturus maculosus)
  • Apalachicola waterdog (Necturus moleri)
  • Escambia waterdog (Necturus mounti)
  • Dwarf waterdog (Necturus punctatus)

Torrent salamanders

  • Southern torrent salamander (Rhyacotriton variegatus)

Amphiumas

Lungless salamanders

Anura

Frogs

New Zealand primitive frogs

  • Hochstetter's frog (Leiopelma hochstetteri)

Tailed frogs

Flat-headed frogs, fire-bellied toads {{columns-list|colwidth=30em|

Midwife toads, painted frogs

  • Catalonian midwife toad (Alytes almogavarii)
  • Iberian midwife toad (Alytes cisternasii)
  • Common midwife toad (Alytes obstetricans)
  • Iberian painted frog (Discoglossus galganoi)
  • Painted frog (Discoglossus pictus)
  • Tyrrhenian painted frog (Discoglossus sardus)
  • Moroccan painted frog (Discoglossus scovazzi)

Clawed frogs, Surinam toads

  • 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)
  • False Fraser's clawed frog (Xenopus allofraseri)
  • Andre's clawed frog (Xenopus andrei)
  • Marsabit clawed frog (Xenopus borealis)
  • Eritrea clawed frog (Xenopus clivii)
  • Xenopus epitropicalis
  • Fischberg's clawed frog (Xenopus fischbergi)
  • African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis)
  • Cameroon clawed frog (Xenopus mellotropicalis)
  • Müller's platanna (Xenopus muelleri)
  • Upland clawed frog (Xenopus parafraseri)
  • Peters' platanna (Xenopus petersii)
  • Xenopus poweri
  • Bouchia clawed frog (Xenopus pygmaeus)
  • Western clawed frog (Xenopus tropicalis)
  • Kivu clawed frog (Xenopus vestitus)
  • Mwanza clawed frog (Xenopus victorianus)
  • De Witte's clawed frog (Xenopus wittei)

Burrowing frog (single extant species)

American spadefoot toads

Parsley frogs

  • Lusitanian parsley frog (Pelodytes atlanticus)
  • Caucasian parsley frog (Pelodytes caucasicus)
  • Iberian parsley frog (Pelodytes ibericus)
  • Common parsley frog (Pelodytes punctatus)

European spadefoot toads

Litter frogs

Robber frogs

Shrub frogs

Cryptic forest frogs

Rain frogs

  • Strawberry rain frog (Breviceps acutirostris)
  • Breviceps adspersus
  • Breviceps fichus
  • Black rain frog (Breviceps fuscus)
  • Mountain rain frog (Breviceps montanus)
  • Mozambique rain frog (Breviceps mossambicus)
  • Namaqua rain frog (Breviceps namaquensis)
  • Power's rain frog (Breviceps poweri)
  • Rose's rain frog (Breviceps rosei)
  • Whistling rain frog (Breviceps sopranus)
  • Plaintive rain frog (Breviceps verrucosus)
  • Krefft's warty frog (Callulina kreffti)
  • Spelaeophryne methneri

True toads

Fleshbelly frogs

Cloud forest groundfrogs

Glass frogs

Screeching frogs

Marsupial frogs, horned treefrogs, backpack frogs, and allies

Button frogs and allies

Poison dart frogs

Mantellid frogs

Wrinkled ground frogs and allies

Fork-tongued frogs

Narrow-mouthed frogs

True frogs

Australian water frogs

  • Walpole's frog (Anstisia lutea)
  • Karri frog (Anstisia rosea)
  • Northern sandhill frog (Arenophryne rotunda)
  • Southern sandhill frog (Arenophryne xiphorhyncha)
  • Bilingual frog (Crinia bilingua)
  • Chirping froglet (Crinia deserticola)
  • Kimberley froglet (Crinia fimbriata)
  • 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)
  • Common froglet (Crinia signifera)
  • Small western froglet (Crinia subinsignifera)
  • Tinkling froglet (Crinia tinnula)
  • Smooth frog (Geocrinia laevis)
  • Lea's frog (Geocrinia leai)
  • Eastern smooth frog (Geocrinia victoriana)
  • Nicholl's toadlet (Metacrinia nichollsi)
  • Carbine frog (Mixophyes carbinensis)
  • Cogger's frog (Mixophyes coggeri)
  • Great barred frog (Mixophyes fasciolatus)
  • Northern barred frog (Mixophyes schevilli)
  • Turtle frog (Myobatrachus gouldii)
  • Haswell's frog (Paracrinia haswelli)
  • Bibron's toadlet (Pseudophryne bibronii)
  • Red-backed toadlet (Pseudophryne coriacea)
  • Dendy's toadlet (Pseudophryne dendyi)
  • Douglas' toad (Pseudophryne douglasi)
  • Günther's toadlet (Pseudophryne guentheri)
  • Great brown broodfrog (Pseudophryne major)
  • Orange-crowned toadlet (Pseudophryne occidentalis)
  • Copper-backed toadlet (Pseudophryne raveni)
  • Central Ranges toadlet (Pseudophryne robinsoni)
  • Southern toadlet (Pseudophryne semimarmorata)
  • Liem's frog (Taudactylus liemi)
  • Montane toadlet (Uperoleia altissima)
  • Jabiru toadlet (Uperoleia arenicola)
  • Derby toadlet (Uperoleia aspera)
  • Northern toadlet (Uperoleia borealis)
  • 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)
  • Tiny toadlet (Uperoleia micra)
  • 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)
  • Pilbara toadlet (Uperoleia saxatilis)
  • Ratcheting toadlet (Uperoleia stridera)
  • Mole toadlet (Uperoleia talpa)
  • Blacksoil toadlet (Uperoleia trachyderma)

Puddle frogs

Tree frogs and allies

Australian treefrogs

  • Striped burrowing frog (Cyclorana alboguttata)
  • Giant frog (Cyclorana australis)
  • Short-footed frog (Cyclorana brevipes)
  • Hidden-ear frog (Cyclorana cryptotis)
  • Knife-footed frog (Cyclorana cultripes)
  • Long-footed frog (Cyclorana longipes)
  • Daly Waters frog (Cyclorana maculosa)
  • Main's frog (Cyclorana maini)
  • Small frog (Cyclorana manya)
  • New Holland frog (Cyclorana novaehollandiae)
  • Western water-holding frog (Cyclorana occidentalis)
  • Eastern water-holding frog (Cyclorana platycephala)
  • Wailing frog (Cyclorana vagitus)
  • Rough frog (Cyclorana verrucosa)
  • Slender tree frog (Litoria adelaidensis)
  • Horst's tree frog (Litoria amboinensis)
  • Angiana tree frog (Litoria angiana)
  • Arfakiana tree frog (Litoria arfakiana)
  • Litoria auae
  • Litoria bibonius
  • Northern dwarf tree frog (Litoria bicolor)
  • Green-thighed frog (Litoria brevipalmata)
  • Burrows tree frog (Litoria burrowsi)
  • Australian green tree frog (Litoria caerulea)
  • Cave-dwelling frog (Litoria cavernicola)
  • Red-eyed green treefrog (Litoria chloris)
  • Litoria christianbergmanni
  • Blue Mountains tree frog (Litoria citropa)
  • Yule Island tree frog (Litoria congenita)
  • Copland's rock frog (Litoria coplandi)
  • Spotted-thighed tree frog (Litoria cyclorhyncha)
  • Dahl's aquatic frog (Litoria dahlii)
  • Darlington's Madang tree frog (Litoria darlingtoni)
  • Bleating tree frog (Litoria dentata)
  • Dwarf rocket frog (Litoria dorsalis)
  • Buzzing tree frog (Litoria electrica)
  • Fringed tree frog (Litoria eucnemis)
  • Everett's Timor treefrog (Litoria everetti)
  • Southern brown tree frog (Litoria ewingii)
  • Litoria exophthalmia
  • Eastern dwarf tree frog (Litoria fallax)
  • Litoria flavescens
  • Green-eyed tree frog (Litoria genimaculata)
  • Centralian tree frog (Litoria gilleni)
  • Dainty green tree frog (Litoria gracilenta)
  • Litoria havina
  • Litoria humboldtorum
  • Southern New Guinea tree frog (Litoria impura)
  • Bumpy rocket frog (Litoria inermis)
  • White-lipped tree frog (Litoria infrafrenata)
  • Western Highland tree frog (Litoria iris)
  • Jervis Bay tree frog (Litoria jervisiensis)
  • Broad-palmed frog (Litoria latopalmata)
  • Lesueur's frog (Litoria lesueurii)
  • Littlejohn's tree frog (Litoria littlejohni)
  • Long-snouted frog (Litoria longirostris)
  • Rossell Island tree frog (Litoria louisiadensis)
  • Rockhole frog (Litoria meiriana)
  • Javelin frog (Litoria microbelos)
  • Nodugl tree frog (Litoria micromembrana)
  • Oruge tree frog (Litoria modica)
  • Motorbike frog (Litoria moorei)
  • Kassam tree frog (Litoria multiplica)
  • Australian waterfall frog (Litoria nannotis)
  • Snow Mountains tree frog (Litoria napaea)
  • Striped rocket frog (Litoria nasuta)
  • Bridled frog (Litoria nigrofrenata)
  • Black-dotted tree frog (Litoria nigropunctata)
  • Southern leaf green tree frog (Litoria nudidigita)
  • Pale frog (Litoria pallida)
  • Plains brown tree frog (Litoria paraewingi)
  • Peron's tree frog (Litoria peronii)
  • Masked frog (Litoria personata)
  • Leaf green tree frog (Litoria phyllochroa)
  • Water-holding frog (Litoria platycephala)
  • Litoria pronimia
  • Efogi tree frog (Litoria prora)
  • Geelvink pygmy tree frog (Litoria pygmaea)
  • Revealed frog (Litoria revelata)
  • Litoria rivicola
  • Roth's tree frog (Litoria rothii)
  • Desert tree frog (Litoria rubella)
  • Litoria spinifera
  • Magnificent tree frog (Litoria splendida)
  • Litoria staccato
  • Treasury Island tree frog (Litoria thesaurensis)
  • Menemsorae tree frog (Litoria timida)
  • Tornier's frog (Litoria tornieri)
  • Tyler's tree frog (Litoria tyleri)
  • Whistling tree frog (Litoria verreauxii)
  • Brown River tree frog (Litoria vocivincens)
  • Watjulum frog (Litoria watjulumensis)
  • Litoria wilcoxii
  • Highland tree frog (Litoria wollastoni)
  • Orange-thighed frog (Litoria xanthomera)

African reed frogs

Box-headed frogs

  • Angola river frog (Amietia angolensis)
  • Chapin's river frog (Amietia chapini)
  • Amietia desaegeri
  • Sani pass frog (Amietia dracomontana)
  • Cape river frog (Amietia fuscigula)
  • Natal Drakensberg frog (Amietia hymenopus)
  • Nutt's river frog (Amietia nutti)
  • Amani river frog (Amietia tenuoplicata)
  • Amietia vandijki
  • Maluti river frog (Amietia vertebralis)
  • 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

  • Tusked frog (Adelotus brevis)
  • Western spotted frog (Heleioporus albopunctatus)
  • Western marsh frog (Heleioporus barycragus)
  • Moaning frog (Heleioporus eyrei)
  • Plain frog (Heleioporus inornatus)
  • Sand frog (Heleioporus psammophilus)
  • Lechriodus aganoposis
  • Fletcher's frog (Lechriodus fletcheri)
  • Lechriodus melanopyga
  • Lechriodus platyceps
  • Marbled frog (Limnodynastes convexiusculus)
  • Flat-headed frog (Limnodynastes depressus)
  • Western bullfrog (Limnodynastes dorsalis)
  • Limnodynastes dumerilii
  • Long-thumbed frog (Limnodynastes fletcheri)
  • Giant banjo frog (Limnodynastes interioris)
  • Woodworker frog (Limnodynastes lignarius)
  • Striped marsh frog (Limnodynastes peronii)
  • Salmon-striped frog (Limnodynastes salmini)
  • Spotted grass frog (Limnodynastes tasmaniensis)
  • Northern banjo frog (Limnodynastes terraereginae)
  • White-footed frog (Neobatrachus albipes)
  • Northern burrowing frog (Neobatrachus aquilonius)
  • Trilling frog (Neobatrachus centralis)
  • Tawny frog (Neobatrachus fulvus)
  • Kunapalari frog (Neobatrachus kunapalari)
  • Humming frog (Neobatrachus pelobatoides)
  • Painted burrowing frog (Neobatrachus pictus)
  • Sudell's frog (Neobatrachus sudelli)
  • Shoemaker frog (Neobatrachus sutor)
  • Goldfield's bull frog (Neobatrachus wilsmorei)
  • Crucifix toad (Notaden bennettii)
  • Northern spadefoot toad (Notaden melanoscaphus)
  • Desert spadefoot toad (Notaden nichollsi)
  • Weigel's toad (Notaden weigeli)
  • Ornate burrowing frog (Platyplectrum ornatum)
  • Spencer's burrowing frog (Platyplectrum spenceri)

Common horned frogs

  • Brazilian horned frog (Ceratophrys aurita)
  • Venezuelan horned frog (Ceratophrys calcarata)
  • Surinam horned frog (Ceratophrys cornuta)
  • Cranwell's horned frog (Ceratophrys cranwelli)
  • Caatinga horned frog (Ceratophrys joazeirensis)
  • Chacophrys pierottii
  • Paraguay horned frog (Lepidobatrachus asper)
  • Budgett's frog (Lepidobatrachus laevis)
  • Lepidobatrachus llanensis

Odontophrynid frogs

Grassland frogs

Southern frogs

Saddleback toads

Tree toads and allies

Shovelnose frogs

  • Guinea snout-burrower (Hemisus guineensis)
  • Marbled snout-burrower (Hemisus marmoratus)
  • Ethiopian shovelnose frog (Hemisus microscaphus)
  • Olive shovelnose frog (Hemisus olivaceus)
  • Perret's shovelnose frog (Hemisus perreti)

Other frog species

Caecilians

See also

References

  1. ↑ "IUCN Red List version 2025-2". International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). http://www.iucnredlist.org/. Retrieved 30 December 2025. 





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