A Checklist of Amphibians of India (Updated till April 2017) Compiled by: K.P. Dinesh 1, C. Radhakrishnan 2, B.H. Channakeshavamurthy 3, P. Deepak 4 and Nirmal U Kulkarni 5 1'IMPU'; Near Beranji halla; Aldur-577111, Chickkamagaluru, Karnataka. E-mail: [email protected] 2 33/5267-D, Devika, Golf links Road, Chevayur, Calicut – 673 017, Kerala. 3Western Ghats Regional Centre (WGRC), Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Calicut 673006, Kerala. 4Mount Carmel College, Autonomous; No. 58, Palace Road, Vasanth Nagar, Bengaluru-560052, Karnataka. 5Mhadei Research Centre, C/o Hiru Naik Building, Dhuler Mapusa - 403507, Goa. 1 Mhadei Research Center The first comprehensive checklist of amphibians of India was brought out by Dutta (1997) enlisting 212 species. Das and Dutta (1998) catalogued the common names of the Indian amphibians and the checklist was updated by Daniels in 2001. Chanda (2002) published the first handbook on amphibians of India with brief accounts and distribution maps. In the year 2005 Daniels listed 238 species of amphibians from India in his book ‘Amphibians of the peninsular India'. Dinesh et al., (2009) brought out an annotated checklist of amphibians of India listing 284 species with the ir synonyms, information on their type locality, type specimen status and their known distribution. Since then the online version of the Check lists of ‘Indian Amphibians' were periodically updated by Dinesh et al., listing 311 species in 2010; 314 species in 2011; 342 species in 2012 and 2013; and 384 species in 2015. The present checklist is updated with all the species names available till April 2017 and enlists 405 species of amphibians from India, including those listed in the past from Goa (Kulkarni et al., 2013). The nomenclature followed here is after Frost 2017. 2 Mhadei Research Center Systematic Account: CLASS: AMPHIBIA Gray ORDER: ANURA Fischer von Waldheim FAMILY: BUFONIDAE Gray Sl. Species No.