List of amphibians of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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This is a List of amphibians of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by family. It lists all families and species of amphibians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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The list below follows Frost, 2011: Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 5.5 (31 January 2011), and AmphibiaWeb, by the University of California, Berkeley.

A difference between the two above classifications is that Frost has split the families Dicroglossidae, Phrynobatrachidae, Ptychadenidae, Pyxicephalidae and Rhacophoridae off from the Ranidae (i.e. elevated to distinct families), whereas AmphibiaWeb has not (i.e. keeping them within the Ranidae). In this we follow Frost here.

See Sources below.

Class Amphibia

Total 259 species of Amphibians, in 2 orders, 15 families, 43 genera, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a few of which are presumed to occur in DRC but have not yet been found there.

Order Anura - Frogs and Toads

Total 256 species in 14 families, 40 genera, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Order Caudata - Salamanders

There are no salamanders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, nor in tropical Africa.

Order Gymnophiona - Caecilian

Total 3 species in 3 genera in 1 family, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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