This is a list of amphibians found in the United States. A total of 306 amphibian species have been recorded in the United States,Frost 2015 2 of which are now extinct.The extinct species include the Vegas Valley leopard frog (Lithobates fisheri) and Ainsworth's salamander (Plethodon ainsworthi). See also AmphibiaWeb This list is derived from the database listing of Amphibian Species of the World.
Salamanders (Caudata) Ambystomatidae
Order: Caudata. Family: Ambystomatidae Ringed salamander (Ambystoma annulatum Cope, 1886) Streamside salamander (Ambystoma barbouri Kraus & Petranka, 1989) Reticulated flatwoods salamander (Ambystoma bishopi Goin, 1950) California tiger salamander (Ambystoma californiense Gray, 1853) Frosted flatwoods salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum Cope, 1868) Northwestern salamander (Ambystoma gracile Baird, 1859) Jefferson salamander (Ambystoma jeffersonianum Green, 1827) Blue-spotted salamander (Ambystoma laterale Hallowell, 1856) Mabee's salamander (Ambystoma mabeei Bishop, 1928) Long-toed salamander (Ambystoma macrodactylum Baird, 1850) Spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum Shaw, 1802) Barred tiger salamander (Ambystoma mavortium Baird, 1850) Marbled salamander (Ambystoma opacum Gravenhorst, 1807) Mole salamander (Ambystoma talpoideum Holbrook, 1838) Small-mouth salamander (Ambystoma texanum Matthes, 1855) Tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum Green, 1825) Idaho giant salamander (Dicamptodon aterrimus Cope, 1868) Cope's giant salamander (Dicamptodon copei Nussbaum, 1970) California giant salamander (Dicamptodon ensatus Eschscholtz, 1833) Coastal giant salamander (Dicamptodon tenebrosus Baird & Girard, 1852)
Amphiumidae
Order: Caudata. Family: Amphiumidae Two-toed amphiuma (Amphiuma means Garden, 1821) One-toed amphiuma (Amphiuma pholeter Neill, 1964) Three-toed amphiuma (Amphiuma tridactylum Cuvier, 1827)
Cryptobranchidae
Order: Caudata. Family: Cryptobranchidae Hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801) Ozark hellbender (Cryptobranchus bishopi Grobman, 1943)
Plethodontidae
Order: Caudata. Family: Plethodontidae Greenhorn Mountains slender salamander (Batrachoseps altasierrae Jockusch, Martínez-Solano, Hansen, & Wake, 2012) California slender salamander (Batrachoseps attenuatus Eschscholtz, 1833) Fairview slender salamander (Batrachoseps bramei Jockusch, Martínez-Solano, Hansen, & Wake, 2012) Inyo Mountains salamander (Batrachoseps campi Marlow, Brode, & Wake, 1979) Hell Hollow slender salamander (Batrachoseps diabolicus Jockusch, Wake, & Yanev, 1998) San Gabriel slender salamander (Batrachoseps gabrieli Wake, 1996) Gabilan Mountains slender salamander (Batrachoseps gavilanensis Jockusch, Yanev, & Wake, 2001) Gregarious slender salamander (Batrachoseps gregarius Jockusch, Wake, & Yanev, 1998) San Simeon slender salamander (Batrachoseps incognitus Jockusch, Yanev, & Wake, 2001) Sequoia slender salamander (Batrachoseps kawia Jockusch, Wake, & Yanev, 1998) Santa Lucia Mountains slender salamander (Batrachoseps luciae Jockusch, Yanev, & Wake, 2001) Garden slender salamander (Batrachoseps major Camp, 1915) Lesser slender salamander (Batrachoseps minor Jockusch, Yanev, & Wake, 2001) Black-bellied slender salamander (Batrachoseps nigriventris Cope, 1869) Channel Islands slender salamander (Batrachoseps pacificus Cope, 1865) Kings River slender salamander (Batrachoseps regius Jockusch, Wake, & Yanev, 1998) Relictual slender salamander (Batrachoseps relictus Brame & Murray, 1968) Kern Plateau salamander (Batrachoseps robustus Wake, Yanev, & Hansen, 2002) Kern Canyon slender salamander (Batrachoseps simatus Brame & Murray, 1968) Tehachapi slender salamander (Batrachoseps stebbinsi Brame & Murray, 1968) Oregon slender salamander (Batrachoseps wrighti Bishop, 1937) Brownback salamander (Eurycea aquatica Rose & Bush, 1963) Carolina Sandhills salamander (Eurycea arenicola Stuart et al., 2020) Northern two-lined salamander (Eurycea bislineata Green, 1818) Chamberlain's dwarf salamander (Eurycea chamberlaini Harrison & Guttman, 2003) Salado Springs salamander (Eurycea chisholmensis Chippindale, Price, Wiens, & Hillis, 2000) Southern two-lined salamander (Eurycea cirrigera Green, 1831) Three-lined salamander (Eurycea guttolineata Holbrook, 1838) Junaluska salamander (Eurycea junaluska Sever, Dundee, & Sullivan, 1976) Cascade Caverns salamander (Eurycea latitans Smith & Potter, 1946) Long-tailed salamander (Eurycea longicauda Green, 1818) Spotted-tail salamander (Eurycea lucifuga Rafinesque, 1822) Many-ribbed salamander (Eurycea multiplicata Cope, 1869) San Marcos salamander (Eurycea nana Bishop, 1941) Georgetown salamander (Eurycea naufragia Chippindale, Price, Wiens, & Hillis, 2000) Texas salamander (Eurycea neotenes Bishop & Wright, 1937) Fern bank salamander (Eurycea pterophila Burger, Smith, & Potter, 1950) Southeastern dwarf salamander (Eurycea quadridigitata Holbrook, 1842) Texas blind salamander (Eurycea rathbuni Stejneger, 1896) Blanco blind salamander (Eurycea robusta Longley, 1978) Barton Springs salamander (Eurycea sosorum Chippindale, Price, & Hillis, 1993) Western grotto salamander (Eurycea spelaea Stejneger, 1892) Eurycea subfluvicola (Eurycea subfluvicola Steffen, Irwin, Blair, & Bonett, 2014) Jollyville Plateau salamander (Eurycea tonkawae Chippindale, Price, Wiens, & Hillis, 2000) Comal blind salamander (Eurycea tridentifera Mitchell & Reddell, 1965) Valdina Farms salamander (Eurycea troglodytes Baker, 1957) Oklahoma salamander (Eurycea tynerensis Moore & Hughes, 1939) Georgia blind salamander (Eurycea wallacei Carr, 1939) Austin blind salamander (Eurycea waterlooensis Hillis, Chamberlain, Wilcox, & Chippindale, 2001) Blue Ridge two-lined salamander (Eurycea wilderae Dunn, 1920) Berry Cave salamander (Gyrinophilus gulolineatus Brandon, 1965) Tennessee cave salamander (Gyrinophilus palleucus McCrady, 1954) Spring salamander (Gyrinophilus porphyriticus Green, 1827) West Virginia spring salamander (Gyrinophilus subterraneus Besharse & Holsinger, 1977) Hemidactylium scutatum (Hemidactylium scutatum Temminck, 1838) Midland mud salamander (Pseudotriton diastictus Bishop, 1941) Mud salamander (Pseudotriton montanus Baird, 1850) Red salamander (Pseudotriton ruber Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801) Many-lined salamander (Stereochilus marginatus Hallowell, 1856) Patch-nosed salamander (Urspelerpes brucei Camp, Peterman, Milanovich, Lamb, Maerz, & Wake, 2009) Green salamander (Aneides aeneus Cope & Packard, 1881) Clouded salamander (Aneides ferreus Cope, 1869) Speckled black salamander (Aneides flavipunctatus Strauch, 1870) Sacramento Mountain salamander (Aneides hardii Taylor, 1941) Shasta black salamander (Aneides iecanus Cope, 1883) Arboreal salamander (Aneides lugubris Hallowell, 1849) Santa Cruz black salamander (Aneides niger Myers & Maslin, 1948) Wandering salamander (Aneides vagrans Wake & Jackman, 1999) Cumberland dusky salamander (Desmognathus abditus Anderson & Tilley, 2003) Cherokee Mountain dusky salamander (Desmognathus adatsihi Pyron and Beamer, 2022) Seepage salamander (Desmognathus aeneus Brown & Bishop, 1947) Nantahala black-bellied salamander (Desmognathus amphileucus Bishop, 1941) Foothills dusky salamander (Desmognathus anicetus Pyron and Beamer, 2023) Apalachicola dusky salamander (Desmognathus apalachicolae Means & Karlin, 1989) Golden shovel-nosed salamander (Desmognathus aureatus Martof, 1956) Holbrook's southern dusky salamander (Desmognathus auriculatus Holbrook, 1838) Piedmont dusky salamander (Desmognathus bairdi Pyron and Beamer, 2023) Great Balsams Mountain dusky salamander (Desmognathus balsameus Pyron and Beamer, 2022) Ouachita dusky salamander (Desmognathus brimleyorum Stejneger, 1895) Savannah dusky salamander (Desmognathus campi Pyron and Beamer, 2023) Carolina mountain dusky salamander (Desmognathus carolinensis Dunn, 1916) Western spotted dusky salamander (Desmognathus catahoula Pyron and Beamer, 2023) Talladega seal salamander (Desmognathus cheaha Pyron, O'Connell, Duncan, Burbrink, and Beamer, 2023) Spotted dusky salamander (Desmognathus conanti Rossman, 1958) Dwarf black-bellied salamander (Desmognathus folkertsi Camp, Tilley, Austin, & Marshall, 2002) Northern dusky salamander (Desmognathus fuscus Rafinesque, 1820) Cherokee black-bellied salamander (Desmognathus gvnigeusgwotli Pyron and Beamer, 2022) Imitator salamander (Desmognathus imitator Dunn, 1927) Western shovel-nosed salamander (Desmognathus intermedius Pope, 1928) Kanawha black-bellied salamander (Desmognathus kanawha Pyron and Beamer, 2022) Wolf dusky salamander (Desmognathus lycos Pyron and Beamer, 2023) Shovelnose salamander (Desmognathus marmoratus Moore, 1899) Pisgah black-bellied salamander (Desmognathus mavrokoilius Pyron and Beamer, 2022) Black shovel-nosed salamander (Desmognathus melanius Martof, 1956) Seal salamander (Desmognathus monticola Dunn, 1916) Allegheny Mountain dusky salamander (Desmognathus ochrophaeus Cope, 1859) Ocoee salamander (Desmognathus ocoee Nicholls, 1949) Blue Ridge dusky salamander (Desmognathus orestes Tilley & Mahoney, 1996) Northern pygmy salamander (Desmognathus organi Crespi, Browne, & Rissler, 2010) Pascagoula dusky salamander (Desmognathus pascagoula Pyron, O'Connell, Lamb, and Beamer, 2022) Chattooga dusky salamander (Desmognathus perlapsus Neill, 1950) Flat-headed salamander (Desmognathus planiceps Newman, 1955) Blackbelly salamander (Desmognathus quadramaculatus Holbrook, 1840) (defunct) Santeetlah dusky salamander (Desmognathus santeetlah Tilley, 1981) Max Patch dusky salamander (Desmognathus tilleyi Pyron and Beamer, 2023) Valentine's southern dusky salamander (Desmognathus valentinei Means, Lamb, and Bernardo, 2017) Carolina swamp dusky salamander (Desmognathus valtos Pyron and Beamer, 2022) Black mountain salamander (Desmognathus welteri Barbour, 1950) Pygmy salamander (Desmognathus wrighti King, 1936) Ensatina (Ensatina eschscholtzii Gray, 1850) Limestone salamander (Hydromantes brunus Gorman, 1954) Mount Lyell salamander (Hydromantes platycephalus Camp, 1916) Shasta salamander (Hydromantes shastae Gorman & Camp, 1953) Red Hills salamander (Phaeognathus hubrichti Highton, 1961) Ainsworth's salamander (Plethodon ainsworthi Lazell, 1998) Western slimy salamander (Plethodon albagula Grobman, 1944) Blue Ridge gray-cheeked salamander (Plethodon amplus Highton & Peabody, 2000) Ozark zigzag salamander (Plethodon angusticlavius Grobman, 1944) Scott Bar salamander (Plethodon asupak Mead, Clayton, Nauman, Olson, & Pfrender, 2005) Tellico salamander (Plethodon aureolus Highton, 1984) Caddo Mountain salamander (Plethodon caddoensis Pope & Pope, 1951) Chattahoochee slimy salamander (Plethodon chattahoochee Highton, 1989) Cheoah Bald salamander (Plethodon cheoah Highton & Peabody, 2000) Atlantic Coast slimy salamander (Plethodon chlorobryonis Mittleman, 1951) Red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus Green, 1818) White-spotted slimy salamander (Plethodon cylindraceus Harlan, 1825) Northern zigzag salamander (Plethodon dorsalis Cope, 1889) Dunn's salamander (Plethodon dunni Bishop, 1934) Northern ravine salamander (Plethodon electromorphus Highton, 1999) Del Norte salamander (Plethodon elongatus Van Denburgh, 1916) Fourche Mountain salamander (Plethodon fourchensis Duncan & Highton, 1979) Northern slimy salamander (Plethodon glutinosus Green, 1818) Southeastern slimy salamander (Plethodon grobmani Allen & Neill, 1949) Valley and ridge salamander (Plethodon hoffmani Highton, 1972) Peaks of Otter salamander (Plethodon hubrichti Thurow, 1957) Coeur d'Alene salamander (Plethodon idahoensis Slater & Slipp, 1940) Red-cheeked salamander (Plethodon jordani Blatchley, 1901) Cumberland Plateau salamander (Plethodon kentucki Mittleman, 1951) Kiamichi slimy salamander (Plethodon kiamichi Highton, 1989)