Chalazodes Bubble-nest Frog

Amphibians > Anura

The Chalazodes Bubble-nest Frog (Raorchestes chalazodes), also known as the white-spotted bush frog, is one of the world’s most elusive amphibians. Feared extinct for over a century until its dramatic rediscovery in 2011 after 137 years, this luminous green...

Barking Frog

Amphibians > Frogs

The Barking Frog (Craugastor augusti) is a robust, rock-dwelling anuran native to the rugged limestone plateaus and desert mountain canyons of the American Southwest and Mexico. Named for its startling, guttural courtship vocalization that sounds remarkably like the...

Amboli Bush Frog

Amphibians > Bush Frogs

The Amboli Bush Frog (Pseudophilautus amboli) is a charismatic, critically endangered shrub frog native strictly to the northern Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot in southwestern India. Described in 2009 from the misty hill station of Amboli in southern Maharashtra,...

Imperial Cave Salamander

Amphibians > Lungless Salamanders

The Imperial Cave Salamander (Hydromantes imperialis, also classified as Speleomantes imperialis) is a fascinating, lungless plethodontid amphibian endemic strictly to the rugged limestone karst systems of central-eastern Sardinia. As one of Europe’s few...

Cave Squeaker

Amphibians > Frogs & Toads

The Cave Squeaker (Arthroleptis troglodytes) is an elusive, miniature squeaker frog endemic strictly to the windswept quartzite peaks and deep subterranean cave systems of the Chimanimani Mountains in eastern Zimbabwe. First discovered by science in 1962 and...