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 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.