List of Colorado amphibians - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

List of Colorado amphibians lists the wild salamanders

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...

, frogs

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...

, and toads

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...

found in the U.S. state of Colorado

Colorado

Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...

Salamanders

Family	Species	Common Name
Ambystomatidae	Ambystoma tigrinum	Tiger salamander

Frogs

Family	Species	Common Name
Hylidae	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
Hylidae	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 treefrog
Hylidae	Pseudacris triseriata	Western chorus frog
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:...	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*
Ranidae	Rana blairi	Plains leopard frog
Ranidae	Rana catesbeiana	Bullfrog^†
Ranidae	Rana pipiens	Northern leopard frog
Ranidae	Rana sylvatica	Wood frog

*Although it bears the common name "toad", Gastrophryne olivacea is taxonomically considered to be a frog.

^†Bullfrogs are an introduced

Introduced species

An introduced species — or neozoon, alien, exotic, non-indigenous, or non-native species, or simply an introduction, is a species living outside its indigenous or native distributional range, and has arrived in an ecosystem or plant community by human activity, either deliberate or accidental...

and invasive

Invasive species

"Invasive species", or invasive exotics, is a nomenclature term and categorization phrase used for flora and fauna, and for specific restoration-preservation processes in native habitats, with several definitions....

species to Colorado.

Toads

Family	Species	Common Name
Bufonidae	Bufo boreas	Western toad
Bufonidae	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
Bufonidae	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
Bufonidae	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
Bufonidae	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
Scaphiopodidae	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
Scaphiopodidae	Spea intermontana	Great Basin spadefoot
Scaphiopodidae	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
Scaphiopodidae	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

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