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Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society, Journal of Threatened Taxa, 13(7), p. 8023

DOI: 10.11609/jott.2003.7.13.8023-8035

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A checklist of amphibians of Kerala, India

Journal article published in 2015 by Sandeep Das ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

A checklist of amphibians of Kerala State is presented in this paper. Accepted English names, scientific binomen, vernacular names in Malayalam, IUCN conservation status, endemism, Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act schedules, and the appendices in the CITES, pertaining to the amphibians of Kerala are also given. The State of Kerala has 151 species of amphibians, 136 of which are endemic to Western Ghats and 50 species fall under the various threatened categories of IUCN.