List of amphibians of California

1 Amphibians

Amphibians

= probably extirpated

Order Anura

Family Ascaphidae

Species	Common name
Ascaphus truei	Coastal Tailed Frog

Family Bufonidae

Species	Common name
Bufo alvarius	Sonoran Desert Toad *
Bufo boreas	Western Toad
Bufo californicus	Arroyo Toad
Bufo canorus ^[e]	Yosemite Toad
Bufo cognatus	Great Plains Toad
Bufo exsul ^[e]	Black Toad
Bufo microscaphus	Arizona Toad
Bufo punctatus	Red-spotted Toad
Bufo woodhousii	Woodhouse's Toad

Family Hylidae

Species	Common name
Pseudacris cadaverina	California Tree Frog
Pseudacris regilla	Pacific Tree Frog

Family Scaphiopodidae

Species	Common name
Scaphiopus couchii	Couch's Spadefoot
Spea hammondii	Western Spadefoot
Spea intermontana	Great Basin Spadefoot

Family Ranidae

Species	Common name
Rana aurora	Northern Red-legged Frog
Rana berlandieri ^[i]	Rio Grande Leopard Frog *
Rana boylii	Foothill Yellow-legged Frog
Rana cascadae	Cascades Frog *
Rana catesbeiana ^[i]	American Bullfrog
Rana draytonii	California Red-legged Frog
Rana muscosa ^[e]	Southern Mountain Yellow-legged Frog
Rana pipiens	Northern Leopard Frog
Rana pretiosa	Oregon Spotted Frog *
Rana sierrae	Sierra Nevada Yellow-legged Frog
Rana sphenocephala ^[i]	Southern Leopard Frog
Rana yavapaiensis	Lowland Leopard Frog

Family Pipidae

Species	Common name
Xenopus laevis ^[i]	African Clawed Frog

Order Caudata

Family Ambystomatidae

Species	Common name
Ambystoma californiense ^[e]	California Tiger Salamander
Amybstoma gracile	Northwestern Salamander
Ambystoma macrodactylum	Long-toed Salamander
Ambystoma mavortium	Barred Tiger Salamander

Family Dicamptodontidae

Species	Common name
Dicamptodon ensatus ^[e]	California Giant Salamander
Dicamptodon tenebrosus	Coastal Giant Salamander

Family Plethodontidae

Species	Common name
Aneides ferreus	Clouded Salamander
Aneides flavipunctatus	Black Salamander
Aneides lugubris	Arboreal Salamander
Aneides vagrans ^[e]	Wandering Salamander
Batrachoseps attenuatus	California Slender Salamander
Batrachoseps campi ^[e]	Inyo Mountains Slender Salamander
Batrachoseps diabolicus ^[e]	Hell Hollow Slender Salamander
Batrachoseps gabrieli ^[e]	San Gabriel Slender Salamander
Batrachoseps gavilanensis ^[e]	Gabilan Mountains Slender Salamander
Batrachoseps gregarius ^[e]	Gregarious Slender Salamander
Batrachoseps incognitus ^[e]	San Simeon Slender Salamander
Batrachoseps kawia ^[e]	Sequoia Slender Salamander
Batrachoseps luciae ^[e]	Santa Lucia Mountains Slender Salamander
Batrachoseps major	Garden Slender Salamander
Batrachoseps minor ^[e]	Lesser Slender Salamander
Batrachoseps nigriventris ^[e]	Black-bellied Slender Salamander
Batrachoseps pacificus ^[e]	Channel Islands Slender Salamander
Batrachoseps regius ^[e]	Kings River Slender Salamander
Batrachoseps relictus ^[e]	Relictual Slender Salamander
Batrachoseps robustus ^[e]	Kern Plateau Slender Salamander
Batrachoseps simatus ^[e]	Kern Canyon Slender Salamander
Batrachoseps stebbinsi ^[e]	Tehachapi Slender Salamander
Ensatina eschscholtzii	Ensatina
Hydromantes brunus ^[e]	Limestone Salamander
Hydromantes platycephalus ^[e]	Mount Lyell Salamander
Hydromantes shastae ^[e]	Shasta Salamander
Plethodon asupak ^[e]	Scott Bar Salamander
Plethodon dunni	Dunn's Salamander
Plethodon elongatus	Del Norte Salamander
Plethodon stormi	Siskiyou Salamander

Family Rhyacotritonidae

Species	Common name
Rhyacotriton variegatus	Southern Torrent Salamander

Family Salamandridae

Species	Common name
Taricha granulosa	Rough-skinned Newt
Taricha rivularis ^[e]	Red-bellied Newt
Taricha torosa ^[e]	California Newt
Taricha torosa sierrae ^[e]	Sierra newt
Taricha torosa torosa ^[e]	Coastal Range newt

List of amphibians of the United States by political division

States	Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

Federal district	Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia)

Insular areas	American Samoa Guam Northern Mariana Islands Puerto Rico U.S. Virgin Islands

State of California

Sacramento (capital)

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Regions	Antelope Valley Big Sur Cascade Range Central California Central Coast Central Valley Channel Islands Coachella Valley Conejo Valley Cucamonga Valley Death Valley East Bay (SF) East County (SD) Eastern California Emerald Triangle Gold Country Great Basin Greater Los Angeles Greater Sacramento Inland Empire Lake Tahoe Los Angeles Basin Lost Coast Metropolitan Fresno Mojave Mountain Empire North Bay (SF) North Coast North County (SD) Northern California Owens Valley Oxnard Plain San Francisco Peninsula Pomona Valley Sacramento Valley San Bernardino Valley San Diego–Tijuana San Fernando Valley San Francisco Bay Area San Gabriel Valley San Joaquin Valley Santa Clara Valley Santa Clara River Valley Santa Clarita Valley Shasta Cascade Sierra Nevada Silicon Valley South Bay (LA) South Bay (SF) South Bay (SD) South Coast Southern California Southern Border Region Tri-Valley Upstate California Victor Valley Wine Country Yosemite

Metro areas	Bakersfield Chico El Centro Fresno Hanford–Corcoran Los Angeles–Long Beach–Glendale Madera Modesto Merced Napa Oakland–Fremont–Hayward Oxnard–Thousand Oaks–Ventura Redding Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario Sacramento–Arden Arcade–Roseville Salinas San Diego–Carlsbad–San Marcos San Francisco–San Mateo–Redwood City San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara San Luis Obispo–Paso Robles Santa Ana–Anaheim–Irvine Santa Barbara–Santa Maria–Goleta Santa Cruz–Watsonville Santa Rosa–Petaluma Stockton Vallejo–Fairfield Visalia–Porterville Yuba City

Micro areas	Bishop Clearlake Crescent City Eureka–Arcata–Fortuna Phoenix Lake-Cedar Ridge Red Bluff Susanville Truckee–Grass Valley Ukiah

Counties	Alameda Alpine Amador Butte Calaveras Colusa Contra Costa Del Norte El Dorado Fresno Glenn Humboldt Imperial Inyo Kern Kings Lake Lassen Los Angeles Madera Marin Mariposa Mendocino Merced Modoc Mono Monterey Napa Nevada Orange Placer Plumas Riverside Sacramento San Benito San Bernardino San Diego San Francisco San Joaquin San Luis Obispo San Mateo Santa Barbara Santa Clara Santa Cruz Shasta Sierra Siskiyou Solano Sonoma Stanislaus Sutter Tehama Trinity Tulare Tuolumne Ventura Yolo Yuba

List of amphibians of California

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