Newts, toads, and frogs — from wetlands to Colchic forests, in one catalog.
Catalog
Salamanders, newts, toads, and frogs — each with habitat and identification notes.
Related guides
Identification, range, safety, and species indexes — guides on one topic, in one place.
Guide
Georgia’s herpetofauna includes amphibians too: 12 species, four of them tailed and eight tailless.
Breeding season, forest streams, and wetlands decide where you find them. Profiles help with identification and conservation status.
FAQ
Short answers to the most common questions.
Georgia’s amphibian checklist has 12 species: the Caucasian salamander, newts, toads, treefrogs and frogs. Some of them are still candidate taxa: Caucasian Toad, Eastern Treefrog, and Caucasian Smooth Newt.
Streams, ponds, wetlands, and humid forests — especially in breeding season. Regional pages add local context.
Skin texture, body shape, size, and calls help. Each profile’s identification section lists concrete traits, and the frogs guide compares them.
Georgia’s herpetofauna is one field unit: reptiles and amphibians are studied and searched for together. Amphibians are still a separate class, not reptiles.
Better not — their skin is sensitive and populations are vulnerable. Observe and compare with the profile photos.
Species composition of Georgia’s amphibians and reptiles and the status of each taxon in this atlas: confirmed, candidate, or introduced.
Next step
Open a species or return to the reptile guides — snakes, lizards, turtles.
News
Amphibians
A genomic study in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution questions the separate-species status of the Caucasian toad, but the taxonomic change is not a settled decision yet.
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The paper divides species recorded in Georgia into confirmed and candidate taxa — this is not a list of new discoveries.
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