This is a list of New Mexico amphibians: all frog

Frog

Frogs are amphibians in the order Anura , formerly referred to as Salientia . Most frogs are characterized by a short body, webbed digits , protruding eyes and the absence of a tail...

s, toad

Toad

A toad is any of a number of species of amphibians in the order Anura characterized by dry, leathery skin , short legs, and snoat-like parotoid glands...

s, and salamander

Salamander

Salamander is a common name of approximately 500 species of amphibians. They are typically characterized by a superficially lizard-like appearance, with their slender bodies, short noses, and long tails. All known fossils and extinct species fall under the order Caudata, while sometimes the extant...

s native to the U.S.

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 state

U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...

 of New Mexico

New Mexico

New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...

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New Mexico is a locale of extreme biome

Biome

Biomes are climatically and geographically defined as similar climatic conditions on the Earth, such as communities of plants, animals, and soil organisms, and are often referred to as ecosystems. Some parts of the earth have more or less the same kind of abiotic and biotic factors spread over a...

s, having mountain ranges down the east and west sides of the state, with forest

Forest

A forest, also referred to as a wood or the woods, is an area with a high density of trees. As with cities, depending where you are in the world, what is considered a forest may vary significantly in size and have various classification according to how and what of the forest is composed...

s in the west, desert

Desert

A desert is a landscape or region that receives an extremely low amount of precipitation, less than enough to support growth of most plants. Most deserts have an average annual precipitation of less than...

 in the central and eastern regions, and grassland

Grassland

Grasslands are areas where the vegetation is dominated by grasses and other herbaceous plants . However, sedge and rush families can also be found. Grasslands occur naturally on all continents except Antarctica...

s in the northeast near the border of Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...

. Despite its relatively, overall arid climate, it is home to a variety of amphibian

Amphibian

Amphibians , are a class of vertebrate animals including animals such as toads, frogs, caecilians, and salamanders. They are characterized as non-amniote ectothermic tetrapods...

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New Mexico only protects a single species of amphibian, the Chiricahua Leopard Frog, Rana chiricahuensis. It is considered to be a threatened species

Threatened species

Threatened species are any speciesg animals, plants, fungi, etc.) which are vulnerable to endangerment in the near future.The World Conservation Union is the foremost authority on threatened species, and treats threatened species not as a single category, but as a group of three categories,...

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True Toads

Family Bufonidae (True Toads)

• Genus Bufo
  Bufo
  Bufo is a large genus of about 150 species of true toads in the amphibian family Bufonidae. Bufo is a Latin word for toad.- Description :...
  
  (Toads)
  • Bufo alvarius
    Colorado River Toad
    The Colorado River toad, Bufo alvarius, also known as the Sonoran Desert toad, is a psychoactive toad found in northern Mexico and the southwestern United States...
    
    (Colorado River Toad)
  • Bufo boreas (Western Toad)
  • Bufo cognatus
    Bufo cognatus
    The Great Plains Toad is a relatively large species of toad. It ranges from southern Alberta, throughout the midwest United States and the inland western United States into northern Mexico....
    
    (Great Plains Toad)
  • Bufo debilis
    Bufo debilis
    Anaxyrus debilis, also classified as Bufo debilis, is a species of toad found in the Southwestern United States in the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas and Texas, as well as in northern Mexico in the states of Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Durango and Zacatecas...
    
    (Green Toad)
  • Bufo microscaphus (Southwestern Toad)
  • Bufo punctatus
    Bufo punctatus
    The Red-spotted toad is a small toad species growing to 3.7 to 7.5 centimeters in length. It has a flattened head and body, and a light grey, olive or reddish brown dorsum with reddish or orange skin glands. It has a whitish or buff venter with or without faint dark spotting, and round parotoid...
    
    (Red-spotted Toad)
  • Bufo speciosus
    Bufo speciosus
    The Texas Toad is a species of small toad native to the United States, primarily in the state of Texas, but it ranges north into Oklahoma, west into New Mexico and south into Mexico....
    
    (Texas Toad)
  • Bufo woodhousii
    Bufo woodhousii
    The Woodhouse's Toad, is a medium-sized true toad, which is native to the United States and Mexico. There are two recognized subspecies. The epithet woodhousii is in honor of the American physician and naturalist Samuel Washington Woodhouse. B...
    
    (Woodhouse's Toad)

Narrowmouth Toads

Family Microhylidae

Microhylidae

Microhylidae is a geographically widespread family of frogs. There are 413 species in 69 genera and nine subfamilies, which is the largest number of genera of any frog family.-Description:...

 (Narrowmouth Toads)

• Genus Gastrophryne
  Gastrophryne
  Gastrophryne, the narrow-mouthed toads, is a genus of microhylid frogs.-Species:* Gastrophryne carolinensis .* Gastrophryne elegans .* Gastrophryne olivacea ....
  
  
  • Gastrophryne olivacea
    Gastrophryne olivacea
    The Great Plains Narrowmouth Toad is a species of microhylid frog. They are found throughout much of the south central United States from the state of Nebraska south through Texas, and into northern Mexico...
    
    (Great Plains Narrowmouth Toad)

Spadefoot Toads

Family Pelobatidae

Pelobatidae

The European spadefoot toads are a family of frogs, the Pelobatidae, with only one extant genus Pelobates, containing four species. They are native to Europe, the Mediterranean, northwestern Africa and western Asia....

 (Spadefoot Toads)

• Genus Scaphiopus
  Scaphiopus
  Scaphiopus is a genus of North American amphibian commonly referred to as the Southern Spadefoot Toads. They differ greatly from true toads by having eyes with vertical pupils, no parotoid gland, and relatively smooth skin. Their most distinctive feature is a spade-like projection on their hind...
  
  (Spadefoot Toads)
  • Scaphiopus couchii
    Scaphiopus couchii
    Couch's Spadefoot Toad is a species of North American spadefoot toad. The epithet couchii is in honor of American naturalist Darius Nash Couch, who collected the first specimen while on a personal expedition to northern Mexico to collect plant, mineral and animal specimens for the Smithsonian...
    
    (Couch's Spadefoot)
• Genus Spea
  Spea
  Spea is a genus of North American amphibian commonly referred to as the Western Spadefoot Toads. They differ greatly from true toads by having eyes with vertical pupils, no parotoid gland, and relatively smooth skin. Their most distinctive feature is a spade-like projection on their hind feet,...
  
  (Western Spadefoot Toads)
  • Spea bombifrons
    Spea bombifrons
    The Plains Spadefoot Toad is a species of spadefoot toad which ranges from southwestern Canada, throughout the Great Plains of the western United States, and into northern Mexico...
    
    (Plains Spadefoot)
  • Spea multiplicata
    Spea multiplicata
    The New Mexico Spadefoot Toad is a species of American spadefoot toad found in the southwestern United States and Mexico. Like other species of spadefoot toad, they get their name from a distinctive spade-like projections on their hind legs which enable them to dig in sandy soils...
    
    (New Mexico Spadefoot)

Tree Frogs

Family Hylidae (Tree Frogs)

• Genus Acris (Cricket Frogs)
  • Acris crepitans
    Acris crepitans
    The Northern Cricket Frog is a species of small Hylid frog native to the United States and northeastern Mexico. Despite being members of the tree frog family, they are not arboreal...
    
    (Northern Cricket Frog)
• Genus Hyla
  Hyla
  The genus Hyla is one of approximately 38 genera in the New World family of tree frogs . The word Hyla translates to "tree," and tree frogs are indeed arboreal...
  
  (Tree Frogs)
  • Hyla arenicolor
    Hyla arenicolor
    The Canyon Tree Frog is a species of tree frog native to the rocky plateau areas of southern United States, primarily in the states of New Mexico and Arizona, but it also ranges to neighboring states of Utah, Texas and Colorado, and as far south as the Mexican states of Michoacán, México,...
    
    (Canyon Tree Frog)
  • Hyla eximia
    Hyla eximia
    Hyla eximia is a species of frog in the Hylidae family.It is endemic to Mexico.Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater...
    
    (Mountain Tree Frog)
• Genus Pseudacris (Chorus Frogs)
  • Pseudacris triseriata (Western Chorus Frog)

Barking Frogs

Family Leptodactylidae

Leptodactylidae

Leptodactylidae is a diverse family of frogs that probably diverged from other hyloids during the Cenozoic era, or possibly at the end of the Mesozoic. There are roughly 50 genera, one of which is Eleutherodactylus, the largest vertebrate genus, with over 700 species...

 (Tropical Frogs)

• Genus Eleutherodactylus
  Eleutherodactylus
  Eleutherodactylus is a genus of frogs in the Leptodactylidae family. It is typically described as the largest vertebrate genus on Earth, with over 700 species...
  
  (Chirping Frogs)
  • Eleutherodactylus augusti
    Eleutherodactylus augusti
    The Eastern Barking Frog is a small Leptodactylid frog found in the southern United States in the states of Texas and New Mexico, with disjunct populations in Arizona and northwestern Mexico. It is called the barking frog because its call sounds like the barking of a small dog...
    
    (Eastern Barking Frog)

True Frogs

Family Ranidae (True Frogs)

• Genus Rana
  Rana (genus)
  Rana is a genus of frogs. Species include such archetypal pond frogs as the common frog of Europe, brown frogs, and the New and Old World true frogs, including the various species of leopard frogs and the American bullfrog. Members of this genus are found through much of Eurasia, North America,...
  
  (True Frogs)
  • Rana catesbeiana (Bullfrog)
  • Rana berlandieri (Rio Grande Leopard Frog)
  • Rana blairi (Plains Leopard Frog)
  • Rana chiricahuensis (Chiricahua Leopard Frog) (T)
  • Rana pipiens (Northern Leopard Frog)

Mole Salamanders

Family Ambystomatidae (Mole Salamanders)

• Genus Ambystoma
  • Ambystoma tigrinum (Tiger Salamander)

Lungless Salamanders

Family Plethodontidae

Lungless salamander

The Plethodontidae, or Lungless salamanders, are a family of salamanders. Most species are native to the western hemisphere, from British Columbia to Brazil, although a few species are found in Sardinia, Europe south of the Alps, and South Korea...

 (Lungless Salamanders)

• Genus Aneides (Climbing Salamanders)
  • Aneides hardii (Sacramento Mountain Salamander)
• Genus Plethodon (Woodland Salamanders)
  • Plethodon neomexicanus (Jemez Mountains Salamander)

External links

• Frogwatch USA: New Mexico Frogs