Checklist of amphibians of France

Updated 08/11/2022

Note on the update: I added Pelophylax saharicus, first mentioned in Doniol-Valcroze et al., 2021.


This list was made after the following references :

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Bour R., Cheylan M., Crochet P.-A., Geniez P., Guyétant R., Haffner P., Ineich I., Naulleau G., Ohler A. & Lescure J. 2008 .Liste taxinomique actualisée des Amphibiens et Reptiles de France. Bulletin de la Société herpétologique de France, 126 : 37-43

- Carranza S. & Amat F. 2005. Taxonomy, biogeography and evolution of Euproctus (Amphibia: Salamandridae), with the resurrection of the genus Calotriton and the description of a new endemic species from the Iberian Peninsula. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 145: 555-582


- Doniol-Valcroze P., Mazepa G., Grimal F., Sourrouille P., Perrin N., Litvinchuk S.N. & Crochet P.A. 2021. Discovery of a Pelophylax saharicus (Anura, Ranidae) population in Southern France: a new potentially invasive species of water frog in Europe. Amphibia-Reptilia, 42 (4): 427-442.

- Dufresnes C. & Martínez-Solano I. 2020. Hybrid zone genomics supports candidate species in Iberian Alytes obstetricans. Amphibia-Reptilia, 41 (1): 105-112.

- Duguet R. & Melki F. 2003. Les Amphibiens de France, Belgique & Luxembourg. Biotope, Mèze, 480 p.

- Frost D.R., Grant T., Faivovich J., Bain R. H., Haas A., Haddad C.F.B., De Sa R.O., Channing A., Wilkinson M., Donnellan S.C., Raxworthy C.J., Campbell J.A., Blotto B. L., Moler P., Drewes R.C., Nussbaum R.A., Lynch J.D., Green D.M. & Wheeler W.C. 2006. The Amphian Tree of Life. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 1-370

- Garcia Paris M., Montori A. & Herrero P. (eds.) 2004. Fauna Iberica vol. 24. Amphibia. Lissamphibia. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. CSIC, Madrid, 639 p.

- Lescure J. 2008. Note explicative à la liste taxinomique actualisée des Amphibiens et Reptiles de France. Bulletin de la Société herpétologique de France, 126 : 25-36

- Speybroeck J. & Crochet P.-A. 2007. Species list of the European herpetofauna - a tentative update. Pod@rcis, 8 (1/2): 8-34

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Speybroeck J., Beukema W. & Crochet P.-A. 2010. A tentative species list of the European herpetofauna (Amphibia and Reptilia) - an update. Zootaxa, 2492: 1-27.

- Speybroeck J., Beukema W., Dufresnes C., Fritz U., Jablonski D., Lymberakis P., Martínez-Solano I, Razzetti E., Vamberger M., Vences M., Vörös J. & Crochet P.-A. 2020. Species list of the European herpetofauna – 2020 update by the Taxonomic Committee of the Societas Europea Herpetologica. Amphibia-Reptilia, 41 (2): 139-189.

- Stöck M., Dubey S., Klütsch C., Litvinchuk S. N., Scheidt U. & Perrin N., 2008. Mitochondrial and nuclear phylogeny of circum-Mediterranean tree frogs from the Hyla arborea group. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 49: 1019-1024.

- Stöck M., Dufresnes C., Litvinchuk S.N., Lymberakis P., Biollay S., Berroneau M., Borzée A., Ghali K., Ogielska M. & Perrin N. 2012. Cryptic diversity among Western Palearctic tree frogs: Postglacial range expansion, range limits, and secondary contacts of three European tree frog lineages (Hyla arborea group). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 65: 1-9.

- Vacher J.P. & Pichenot J. 2012. Bombina bombina (Linnaeus, 1761). Sonneur à ventre de feu. In: Atlas des Amphibiens et Reptiles de France, pp. 236-237. Lescure J., Massary J.C de (Eds). Biotope, Mèze/MNHN, Paris.

- Vences M. 2007. The Amphibian Tree of Life: Ideologie, Chaos oder biologische Realität? Zeitschrift für Feldherpetologie, 14 (2): 153-162.

- Vences M. 2015. Die Gattungszuordnung von Wechselkröte und Kreuzkröte und die Konsolidierung der wissenschaftlichen Benennung europäischer Amphibien.
Zeitschrift für Feldherpetologie, 22 (1): 11-24



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Species noted with an * only occur in Corsica.



URODELES


Plethodontidae


Hydromantes strinatii  (Aellen, 1958)

Salamandridae


Calotriton asper (Dugès, 1852)


Euproctus montanus (Savi, 1838)*


Salamandra atra Laurenti, 1768


Salamandra corsica Savi, 1838*


Salamandra lanzai Nascetti, Andreone, Capula & Bullini, 1988


Salamandra salamandra (Linnaeus, 1758)


Ichthyosaura alpestris (Laurenti, 1768)


Lissotriton helveticus (Razoumowsky, 1789)


Lissotriton vulgaris  (Linnaeus, 1758)


Triturus carnifex (Laurenti, 1768) - introduced


Triturus cristatus (Laurenti, 1768)


Triturus marmoratus (Latreille, 1800)
ANURANS


Alytidae


Alytes obstetricans (Laurenti, 1768)


Alytes almogavarii Arntzen & García-París, 1995


Discoglossus montalentii Lanza, Nascetti, Capula & Bullini, 1984*


Discoglossus pictus Otth, 1837 - introduced


Discoglossus sardus Tschudi, 1837

Bombinatoridae


Bombina bombina (Linnaeus, 1761)


Bombina variegata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Pelobatidae


Pelobates cultripes (Cuvier, 1829)


Pelobates fuscus (Laurenti, 1768)

Pelodytidae


Pelodytes punctatus (Daudin, 1802)

Bufonidae


Bufo bufo (Linnaeus, 1758)


Bufo spinosus Daudin, 1803


Epidalea calamita (Laurenti, 1768)


Bufotes viridis (Laurenti, 1768)

Hylidae


Hyla arborea (Linnaeus, 1758)


Hyla meridionalis Boettger, 1874


Hyla molleri Bedriaga, 1889


Hyla sarda (De Betta, 1857)*

Pipidae



Xenopus laevis (Daudin, 1802) - introduced

Ranidae


Rana arvalis Nilsson, 1842


Rana dalmatina Fitzinger in; Bonaparte, 1838


Rana pyrenaica Serra Cobo, 1993


Rana temporaria Linnaeus, 1758


Lithobates catesbeianus (Shaw, 1802) - introduced


Pelophylax kl. esculentus (Linnaeus, 1758)


Pelophylax kl. grafi (Crochet, Dubois, Ohler & Tunner, 1995)


Pelophylax lessonae (Camerano, 1882)


Pelophylax perezi (Seoane, 1885)


Pelophylax ridibundus (Pallas, 1771) - introduced in some localities


Pelophylax saharicus (Boulenger, 1913) - introduced