Amphibians beginning with S

Sahara Frog - This frog has a distinct calling sound, ribit, and its movement is rather unusual, it hops The Sahara Frog is a species of frog in the Ranidae family. It is found in Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Spain, Tunisia, and Western Sahara; in French it is called grenouille verte d'Afrique du Nord, and in Spanish it is known as rana verde norteafricana.

Salmon-striped Frog, Steindachner’s Frog - It is a large species of frog reaching about 75 mm in length. It is brown above with spots and blotches of darker brown. The predominant feature of this species is the 3 pink, orange or red-brown stripes running down the dorsal surface, with two on each side and one down the back. There is also an orange raised bar running from under the eye to the shoulder. The armpit is orange. The belly is white while the thighs are mottled black and white. The iris is golden.

San Gabriel Slender Salamander - B. gabrieli is similar to the related species B. pacificus and B. nigriventis.

San marcos salamander - The San Marcos Salamander has been federally listed as a threatened species since 1980. Due to its extremely limited geographic range, it poses threats from a number of things, but primarily from the contamination of ground water sources and heavy dependence of Central Texas cities upon the Edwards Aquifer for water.

San Simeon Slender Salamander - The San Simeon Slender Salamander is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family. It is endemic to the state of California in the United States. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.

Sandhill Frog - The Northern Sandhill Frog is a small, rotund frog, reaching a maximum length of 33 millimetres . It is a burrowing frog, and has short, strong legs. The dorsal surface is mottled in colour, from dark grey and white to pale brown. It is covered in small warts and ridges. It also has small, bright red or green, patches on its back. The ventral surface is a dull white. The head is small, and triangular in shape, and the body is flat. The tympanum is not visible

Santeetlah Dusky Salamander - Its natural habitats are rivers, intermittent rivers, and freshwater springs. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Sardinian brook salamander - The Sardinian Brook Salamander or Sardinian Mountain Newt is a species of salamander in the Salamandridae family. It is found only in Sardinia, Italy. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, inland karsts, caves, and ponds. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Sardinian Tree Frog, Tyrrhenian Tree Frog - The Sardinian Tree Frog or Tyrrhenian Tree Frog is a species of frog in the Hylidae family. It is found in Corsica, Sardinia and Tuscan Archipelago. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate shrubland, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, and urban areas.

Savanna Banana Frog, Spiny Reed Frog - The Banded Banana Frog is a species of frog in the Hyperoliidae family. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Its natural habitats are moist savanna, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, plantations , rural gardens, and heavily degraded former forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Scanty frog - The Scanty Frog is a very small frog, reaching a size of 16-19 millimetres . The dorsal surface is grey-brown, with random pale sections. In some specimens, a broad vertebral line is present, which broadens towards the eyes. It has a deep red patch on the groin. A faint "H" shape is present on the shoulders, and a V shape between the eyes. Toe pads are present, and webbing between toes and fingers are absent.

Scarlet harlequin toad - The Scarlet Harlequin Toad or Sapito Arlequin De Soriano is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family. It is endemic to Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Scottbar Salamander - Plethodon asupak is a moderate-size, robust, salamander with long limbs. It is purplish-gray with white flecks that condense on sides and limbs. It frequently has gold spotting in eyes. Juveniles have paired reddish dorsal stripes . A species endemic to California; it inhabits shaded, moss-covered talus slopes in old growth mixed evergreen and montane fir forests of the Klamath Mountain Range. It was discovered in 2001, currently known from handful of locations near the confluence of Klamath and Scott Rivers, hence its common name "Scott Bar Salamander."

Seal salamander - The seal salamander can be found from southwestern Pennsylvania and south through areas of high elevation in West Virginia, western Maryland, western and northern Virginia, eastern Kentucky, western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, western South Carolina, and northern Georgia to central Alabama. There are also disjunctive populations in southern Alabama as well as at the very western end of the Florida panhandle. In the north of its range, it has not been observed north or west of the Ohio River.

Seep frog - The Seep Frog is a species of frog in the Ranidae family. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, intermittent rivers, and intermittent freshwater marshes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Seepage salamander - Its natural habitats are temperate forests, intermittent rivers, and freshwater springs. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Sequoia slender salamander - The Sequoia Slender Salamander is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family. It is endemic to the United States. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.

Sequoyah Slimy Salamander - Its natural habitat is temperate forests.

Seychelles Treefrog - T. seychellensis is the only species in the genus Tachycnemis.

Shadowy Web-footed Salamander - The Shadowy Web-footed Salamander is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family. It is found in Costa Rica and possibly Panama. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Sharp Snouted Day Frog - It was a diurnal, conspicuous and locally abundant species, but a rapid population decline began in 1988. It is therefore considered critically endangered under the IUCN Red List, and endangered under Queensland's Nature Conservation Act 1992, but is likely extinct, with the last known record in 1997, and is accordingly listed as such under Australia's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

Sharp-ribbed Newt - The Iberian Ribbed Newt has tubercles running down each side. Through these, its sharp ribs can puncture. The ribs act as a defense mechanism, causing little harm to the newt. In the wild this amphibian grows up to 30 centimetres , but rarely more than 20 centimetres in captivity. Its color is dark gray dorsally, and lighter gray on its ventral side, with rust-colored small spots where its ribs can protrude. These newts have a flat spade-shaped head and a long tail which is about half their body length. Males are slenderer and usually smaller than females. The larvae have bushy external gills and usually paler color patterns than the adults.

Shasta salamander - Its natural habitats are temperate forests, freshwater springs, rocky areas, and caves. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Shenandoah Mountain Salamander - Its natural habitat is temperate forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Shenandoah Salamander - Males and females typically establish separate feeding and/or mating territories underneath rocks and logs. Breeding occurs in fall and spring, with females attending clutches of eggs laid in crevices between rocks in their talus habitat .

Shield toad - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Short-legged horned toad - It can be found in Lung Fu Shan Country Park. ; there are not information about them, however. One specimen was once collected in Fujian but there are no recent records.

Short-nosed toad - The Short-nosed Toad is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family. It is endemic to India.

Short-webbed Frog, Pegu Wart Frog, Peters' Frog - Fejervarya brevipalmata is a species of frog found in Asia.

Shovel-nosed salamander - Its natural habitats are temperate forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, and freshwater springs. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Siberian Newt, Siberian Salamander - Adults are from 9 to 12.5 centimeters in length. Their bodies are bluish-brown in color, with a purple stripe along the back. There are thin dark brown stripes between and around the eyes, and also sometimes on the tail. There are four clawless toes on each foot. The tail is longer than the body.

Siberian Wood Frog - A habitat generalist, the Siberian tree frog favors open ground but is also found in both deciduous and coniferous forests. In the winter it hibernates on pond bottoms. Adults are light brown with smooth skin and irregular dark brown and yellow stripes, with a body length of 2-2.5 centimeters.

Sierra Nevada Yellow-legged Frog - This species is very similar in appearance to the Mountain yellow-legged frog.

Silent valley toad - Bufo silentvalleyensis is a species of toad endemic to southern India.

Silver Running Frog, Large Running Frog - Kassina cassinoides is a species of frog in the Hyperoliidae family. It is found in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Mali, possibly Benin, possibly Chad, possibly Guinea, possibly Guinea-Bissau, possibly Mauritania, possibly Niger, possibly Nigeria, possibly Senegal, and possibly Togo. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, intermittent freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater marshes, and pastureland.

Silver-eyed barred frog - This frog's historical distribution ranged from the Timbarra River near Drake in northern New South Wales, to the Cann River catchment in eastern Victoria and covered an area of approximately 110 000 km². Populations south of Sydney have declined dramatically and the Victorian populations are believed to be extinct. It has also disappeared from a number of sites in NSW where it was once common. It occurs at altitudes between 20 m and 1400 m. In the north of its range the species occurs only at high altitudes while in the south both upland and lowland populations have been recorded.

Sirens - Nymphargus siren is a species of frog in the Centrolenidae family, formerly placed in Cochranella. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Siskiyou mountains salamander - The Siskiyou Mountains salamander is a threatened species in California. Logging and damming have reduced its habitat, which exists only in isolated locations along the Klamath River in northern California and southern Oregon.

Skunk frog - Unlike the related poison dart frogs, this species is fully aquatic and much larger--62 millimetres in length.

Slender Frog - The Slender Frog is a species of frog in the Microhylidae family. It is found in Australia, Papua New Guinea, and possibly Indonesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, moist savanna, rivers, and intermittent rivers.

Slender Tree Frog - As suggested by its name, the Slender Tree Frog has a very slender build. It has a thin, flat body with a flat, pointed snout. The dorsal surface varies in colour, from completely brown or green, to brown with green patches. The flanks of the body have a dark brown or black stripe, which runs through the eye to the nostril; the line is much narrower between the nostril and the eye. The ventral surface is white, and the inside of the thighs have bright red spots. The tympanum is large and distinct. The fingers are mostly unwebbed and the toes are three-quarter webbed. They reach a length of 4.7 centimetres from snout to vent.

Slimy Salamander - The Northern Slimy Salamander is a species of terrestrial plethodontid salamander found through much of the eastern two thirds of the United States, from New York, west to Wisconsin, south to Texas, and east to Florida, with an isolated population in southern New Hampshire. It is called slimy because it is capable of excreting a sticky glue-like substance from its skin. It is also sometimes referred to as the Blue-spotted Salamander, Viscid Salamander, Grey-spotted Salamander, or Sticky Salamander depending on which source is consulted. Due to its large geographic range, some taxonomic researchers have suggested splitting Plethodon glutinosus into several distinct species, but this is not widely accepted.

Sloane’s froglet - The Sloane's Froglet is a species of frog in the Myobatrachidae family. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and intermittent freshwater marshes.

Small Disked Frog, Swamp Frog - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, coastal freshwater lagoons, arable land, pastureland, plantations , rural gardens, urban areas, ponds, aquaculture ponds, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN.

Smallmouth Salamander - The Smallmouth Salamander is a species of salamander found in the central United States, from the Great Lakes region in Michigan to Nebraska, south to Texas, and east to Tennessee, with a population in Canada, in Pelee, Ontario. It is sometimes referred to as the Texas Salamander, Porphyry Salamander, or the Narrowmouthed Salamander. The Kelley’s Island Salamander was synonymized with A. texanum in 1995.

Smith's wrinkled frog - The Smith's Wrinkled Frog is a species of frog in the Ranidae family. It is found in Thailand and possibly Myanmar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Smooth Froglet, Southern Smooth Froglet - Littlejohn, M., Robertson, P., Gillespie, G., Clarke, J. & Brown . Geocrinia laevis. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 2007-07-24.

Smooth Newt - Triturus vulgaris

Smooth Toadlet - The Smooth Toadlet reaches 35mm in length. It is grey-brown to olive-brown above often with darker spots and blotches. There is normally a pale triangular patch on the head in front of the eyes and a pale yellow patch in the armpit. It has prominent parotoid glands. Its belly is white and there is a red patch in the thighs.

Somuncura frog - The Somuncura Frog or Rana De Somuncura is a species of frog in the Leiuperidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Somuncuria. Until recently it belonged to the Leptodactylidae family. It is endemic to Argentina. Its natural habitat is geothermal wetlands. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Sonoran Green Toad - The Sonoran Green Toad, Crapaud Vert Du Sonora, Sapo Verde De Sonora, or Sapo Verde-sonorense is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family. It is found in Mexico and the United States. Its natural habitats are temperate shrubland, intermittent rivers, intermittent freshwater marshes, temperate desert, pastureland, water storage areas, ponds, and irrigated land. It is threatened by habitat loss.

South Mountain Gray-cheeked Salamander - Its natural habitat is temperate forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Southern Appalachian Salamander - The Southern Appalachian Salamander is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family. It is endemic to the United States.

Southern dusky salamander - The Southern Dusky Salamander is a species of salamander native to the coastal regions of the southeastern United States, from Virginia to Texas. Older sources often refer to it as the Eared Triton.

Southern Gastric Brooding Frog, Southern Platypus Frog - The gastric-brooding frogs or Platypus frogs were a genus of ground-dwelling frogs native to Queensland in eastern Australia. The genus consisted of only two species, both of which became extinct in the mid-1980s. The genus was unique because it contained the only two known frog species that incubated the prejuvenile stages of their offspring in the stomach of the mother.

Southern Giant Salamander - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes, plantations , rural gardens, and heavily degraded former forest.

Southern Gray-cheeked Salamander - Its natural habitat is temperate forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Southern Leopard Frog - The Southern Leopard Frog is generally green or light brown in color, with dark brown or black blotching . They grow to 3½ inches in length and have a pointed snout.

Southern Redback Salamander - The Southern Redback Salamander is a species of salamander native to the United States. It is found in four widely disjunct populations. One in central Louisiana; one in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma; one in central Missouri; and one from southeastern Tennessee, to southwestern North Carolina, western Georgia, and eastern Alabama. It is sometimes referred to as the Georgia Red-backed Salamander or the Ouachita Red-backed Salamander. It was once considered a subspecies of Redback Salamander, Plethodon cinereus.

Southern Toad - The Southern Toad is a medium-sized true toad native to the southeastern United States, from eastern Louisiana to southeastern North Carolina. It is most common in areas with sandy soil. Its coloring is usually brown but can be red, gray, or black. It can be kept in a small 5-gallon aquarium lined with unfertilized potting soil, sand, or reptile substrate, as it is a burrowing species. It also needs somewhere to soak, commonly a small water-filled bowl deep enough for it to sit in. The Southern Toad will eat just about any insect that is alive and that can fit in its mouth. The Southern Toad is nocturnal, emerging from its ground burrow around twilight to forage for insects. It spends daylight hours sleeping in its burrow.

Southern torrent salamander - The Southern Torrent Salamander is a species of salamander in the Rhyacotritonidae family. It is endemic to the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Adults are 1.5 - 2.4 inches long from snout to vent. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, rivers, and freshwater springs.

Southern two-lined salamander - Its natural habitats are temperate forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, and freshwater springs.

Southwestern Toad - The Southwestern Toad is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family. It is endemic to Mexico. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Spanish Painted Frog - The Spanish Painted Frog or Sapillo Pintojo Meridional is a species of frog in the Discoglossidae family. It is endemic to Spain. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate shrubland, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, sandy shores, and pastureland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Speckled Black Salamander - The Black Salamander is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family. It is endemic to the United States. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and temperate grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Spectacled Salamander - The Spectacled Salamander is a species of salamander in the Salamandridae family. It is found only in Italy. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, rivers, and freshwater marshes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Sphagnum frog - The Sphagnum Frog is a species of frog in the Limnodynastidae family. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are subtropical moist upland forests, subtropical moist montane forests, and Streams. It is threatened by Climate Change Pathogens and habitat loss.

Spiny tree frog - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Spiny-throated Reed Frog, Mulanje Reed Frog, Spiny Reed Frog - Hyperolius spinigularis is a species of frog in the Hyperoliidae family. It is found in Malawi, Tanzania, and possibly Mozambique. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, arable land, pastureland, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forest, water storage areas, and ponds.

Spot-tailed warty newt - The Spot-Tailed Warty Newt is a species of salamander in the Salamandridae family. It is found only in China. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Spotless Stout Newt - In China, Paddletails live in cool, oligotrophic rivers and brooks sheltered by forests. Food is scarce, so Paddletail Newts developed an aggression towards others of its own kind. Not only do males show aggression towards other males, but females also bully other females or males. Males particularly like to pick on thin females. There are no record of Paddletail Newts breeding in captivity yet.

Spotted chirping frog - The Spotted Chirping Frog is a species of small Leptodactylid frog native to the United States and Mexico. They are found in moderate elevation ranges of the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range, from the Davis Mountains in west Texas south to the Mexican states of Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Durango and Guanajuato. They are sometimes referred to as the Mexican Cliff Frog. They grow from 0.75 to 1.25 inches in length, and are easily mistaken for other Eleutherodactylus species, with which they share range. This has led to some confusion in its taxonomic classification.

Spotted Chorus Frog - The Spotted Chorus Frog or Clark's Tree Frog is a small, nocturnal tree frog native to the grasslands and prairies of central United States and Tamaulipas state, Mexico. It is found from central Kansas, Oklahoma and northeastern New Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico and Rio Grande river valley in Texas and Tamaulipas.

Spotted Grass Frog, Spotted Marsh Frog - This frog reaches 45 mm in length. Its colour ranges from light brown to olive-green, with large, irregular shaped, green or brown spots on its back. Occasionally it will have a thin, pale cream, yellow or bright orange stripe running from snout to vent. There is a raised pale stripe running from below the eye to the base of the arm. The arms and legs are spotted like the back and the belly is white.

Spotted salamander - The spotted salamander is about 6-7.5 inches long. The spotted salamander's main color is black, but can sometimes be a blueish black, dark grey, or even dark brown. There are two rows of yellowish orange spots that run from the top of the head to the tip of the tail. These rows are uneven. Interestingly, the spotted salamander's spots near the top of the head are more orange and the rest of the spots are more yellow. The underside of the spotted salamander is slate gray.

Spotted snout-burrower - The Spotted Snout-burrower is a species of frog in the Hemisotidae family. It is found in South Africa and possibly Swaziland. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna, temperate shrubland, temperate grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, intermittent freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater marshes, and canals and ditches. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Spotted-thighed Frog - The frog is similar in appearance to a cogenor, Litoria moorei, bearing dark green or brownish patches with bronze or gold highlights on its back; this species can be differentiated by the numerous yellowish spots on the underside of the rear legs. Males may be up to 65 mm, females to 85 mm. It is commonly calles Spotted-thighed treefrog; the name Copland's Rock Frog is sometimes mistakenly applied to this species . The feet are unwebbed and have a prominent disc at the toes.

Spring peeper - The spring peeper is a small chorus frog widespread throughout the eastern USA and Canada.

Squirrel treefrog - Squirrel tree frogs are small frogs, about 1.5 inches in length as adults. They are found in many color variations, but most commonly they are green and look very much like the green tree frog . They can also be varying shades of yellow or brown, sometimes with white or brown blotching.

Sri Lankan Bullfrog - The Sri Lankan Painted Frog Kaloula taprobanica is a species of narrow-mouthed frog found in Sri Lanka.

Strawberry poison frog - The strawberry poison frog or strawberry poison-dart frog, is a species of poison dart frog found in Central America. It is common throughout its range, which extends from eastern central Nicaragua through Costa Rica and northwestern Panama. The species is often found in humid lowlands and premontane forest, but large populations are also found in disturbed areas such as plantations.

Stream Brown Frog - Its natural habitats are temperate forests and rivers.

Stream Coqui, Webbed-footed Coqui - It was first described by Chapman Grant in 1931 and was named after herpetologist Karl Patterson Schmidt. It was one of the largest coquí species and the second largest frog on Puerto Rico with a length of approximately 80 mm for females. There is little information about its ecology and life history. It was nocturnal. Their call was loud and sonorous. The eggs were laid in clefts or on rocks.

Stream salamander - The Western Chinese mountain salamander, Batrachuperis pinchonii, is known in Chinese legend as the White Dragon. During the 16th century, a Chinese author documented its presence at the Omei mountain in the province of Sichuan. He wrote that "the salamanders living in clear water have some larger toes, a yellow coloration with black spots, four feet, a snout that is slightly raised, a graceful body and an amiable air." Moreover, local peasants would entreat it to bring rain during especially dry seasons.

Streambank Froglet - The Streambank Froglet is found only in the area around the Flinders Ranges and Gammon Ranges National Parks of central South Australia.

Streamside salamander - Total adult population size is unknown but likely exceeds 10,000.

Strecker's chorus frog - Strecker's Chorus Frog is a species of nocturnal tree frog native to the south central United States, from southern Kansas, through Oklahoma and east to Arkansas, the northwestern tip of Louisiana and south throughouth much of Texas.

Striped chorus frog - The Western Chorus Frog or Striped Chorus Frog is a species of tree frog found in Canada and the United States.

Striped newt - Growing from 2.12 - 4.12 The eft phase, were a juvenile newt spends several years completely terrestrial, rarely occurs, but can be identified by its bright orange color and similar striping. Neoteny is common in adults.

Subdesert Toad - The Subdesert Toad is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family. It is found in Algeria, Cameroon, Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Western Sahara, possibly Angola, possibly Benin, possibly Burkina Faso, possibly Central African Republic, possibly Democratic Republic of the Congo, possibly Guinea-Bissau, and possibly Nigeria. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, intermittent rivers, intermittent freshwater marshes, freshwater springs, hot deserts, and arable land. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Sulawesian Puddle Frog - Its natural habitats are rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forest, ponds, and irrigated land.

Sulawesian Toad - The Sulawesian Toad is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family. It is endemic to Indonesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, arable land, pastureland, plantations , rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forest, water storage areas, ponds, aquaculture ponds, irrigated land, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches.

Sumatran Puddle Frog - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, intermittent freshwater marshes, and canals and ditches. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Sumatran Torrent Frog - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Sunset Frog - Spicospina flammocaerulea is a smaller species, with a snout-vent length of 31-36 in the females and males growing to 29.5-34.8 mm. The physical appearance and colouration differs greatly from all other Australian frog species. It is a dark-purple to black or very dark grey on the dorsal surface. There are orange markings below the vent, around the margins of the body and on the hands and feet. The throat, chest and the underside of the hands and feet are also orange. The back is granular with lots of raised glands, a large parotoid gland is located behind each eye. The belly has vivid light blue spotting on a dark background which is smooth. The fingers and toes are free from webbing and pads.

Supramonte cave salamander - The Supramonte Cave Salamander is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family. It is endemic to Italy.

Surinam Toad - The Suriname Toad, Aparo, Rana Comun De Celdillas, Rana Tablacha, Sapo Chinelo, Sapo Chola, or Sapo De Celdas is a species of frog in the Pipidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, swamps, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marches. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Sword-tailed newt - Sword-tailed newts grow from 5 - 7 inches and have a proportionately longer tail.