Taxonomic Studies on the Amphibians of the Western Ghats: Occasional Paper No. 429

Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Historical resume. 3. Diversity and endemism. 4. Conservation status. 5. Species discovery, past, present and future trends. 6. Methodology followed and the utility of the studies. 7. Systematic species accounts. 8. Family: Bufonidae. 9. Family: Dicroglossidae. 10. Family: Micrixalidae. 11. Family: Microhylidae. 12. Family: Nasikabatrachidae. 13. Family: Nyctibatrachidae. 14. Family: Ranidae. 15. Family: Ranixalidae. 16. Family: Rhacophoridae. 17. Family: Grandisoniidae. 18. Family: Ichthyophiidae. 19. Appendix 1: An updated checklist of amphibians of the Western Ghats (till April 2021) with IUCN red list criteria. 20. Photo plates.