Amphibians beginning with T

Tailed Frog - Until 2001, the genus was believed to be monotypic, the single species being the tailed frog . However in that year Nielson, Lohman, and Sullivan published evidence in Evolution that promoted the Rocky Mountain tailed frog from a subspecies to its own species. Since then, the former species has been formally called coastal tailed frog.

Taliang knobby newt - The Taliang Knobby 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, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, ponds, and irrigated land.

Tam dao salamander - The Tam Dao Salamander or Vietnamese Salamander is a species of salamander in the Salamandridae family. It is found only in Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Tamá Harlequin Frog - The Tamá Harlequin Frog or Sapito Arlequin De Tama is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, rivers, and swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Tandayapa giant glass frog - The Tandayapa Giant Glass Frog is a species of frog in the Centrolenidae family. It is found in Colombia and Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and rivers. Its status is insufficiently known.

Tandy's Sand Frog - The Tandy's Sand Frog is a species of frog in the Ranidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, possibly Lesotho, possibly Malawi, possibly Mozambique, possibly Swaziland, possibly Zambia, and possibly Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, temperate grassland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, intermittent rivers, intermittent freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, water storage areas, ponds, and canals and ditches.

Tapantí Giant Salamander - The Tapantí Giant Salamander is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family. It is endemic to Costa Rica. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Tapping nursery-frog - The Tapping Nursery-frog is a species of frog in the Microhylidae family. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Tasmanian Froglet - This is a fairly small species of frog, up to about 30mm. It is variable, but is generally brown or grey and can have spots or blotches of another colour, at times this species can be completely dark brown or black, with no variation in colour throughout the dorsal surface. The dorsal surface can be bumpy or smooth. There is often a reddish stripe present from the nostril down the side. The ventral surface is mostly white, however it has some red and dark blotches as well as red in the thighs.

Taurus Frog - The Long-legged Wood Frog, Caucasus Frog, Uludağ Frog is a species of frog in the Ranidae family. It is found in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russia, Turkey, and Turkmenistan. Its natural habitats are boreal forests, temperate forests, temperate shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, temperate grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, freshwater springs, rocky areas, arable land, pastureland, plantations , rural gardens, urban areas, water storage areas, ponds, and introduced vegetation. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN.

Taylor's salamander - Taylor's salamander is found only in Laguna Alchichica, a high-altitude crater lake 24 miles southwest of Perote, Puebla, Mexico. It was described in 1982 by Brandon, Maruska, and Rumph, and named for Edward Harrison Taylor. However, the species had been known to science long before then. Taylor himself attempted to describe the species as Ambystoma subsalsum in 1943, but mistakenly used a Mexican tiger salamander as the holotype. This rendered the name invalid, and made into a synonym for the tiger salamander. James Anderson extensively catalogued "subsalsum" in his 1960's field-work, applying the name to actual population that now comprises taylori.

Tehachapi slender salamander - The Tehachapi slender salamander is dark brown in color with light, glittery-looking speckles of coppery red and silver covering its 3-inch length. Like other plethodontids it lacks lungs and breathes through its skin, which it must keep moist. It lives in damp leaf litter and emerges during high humidity or rain.

Tellico Salamander - Grayish black or black dorsum with brassy spotting. The chin is light coloured and the sides have more concentrated yellow or white spotting. Rounded cross section. The maximum size for adults is 151 mm from tip of the snout to tip of the tail.

Texas Black-spotted Newt - The Black-spotted Newt , or Texas Newt, is a species of aquatic newt native predominantly to Mexico: the states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, San Luis Potosí and barely extending into northeastern Hidalgo and Puebla. It also ranges as far north as the United States, into the southern tip of Texas, along the Gulf of Mexico.

Texas blind salamander - The Texas Blind Salamander, Eurycea rathbuni, is a rare cave-dwelling troglobite amphibian native to San Marcos, Hays County, Texas, specifically the San Marcos Pool of the Edwards Aquifer. The salamander has blood-red external gills for absorbing oxygen from the water. The salamander's mature length is 13 cm . Its diet varies by what flows into its cave, including blind shrimp , snails, and amphipods .

Texas salamander - The Texas Salamander grows from 2 to 4 inches in length. It is brown in color, often with yellow or brown mottling, with light yellow spotting down its back. It is neotenic, with a slender body, short limbs, and bright red external gills.

Texas Toad - The Texas Toad is a species of small toad native to the United States, primarily in the state of Texas, but it ranges north into Oklahoma, west into New Mexico and south into Mexico.

Three-lined Salamander - Its natural habitats are temperate forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, freshwater springs, and canals and ditches. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Three-lined Salamander - The E. longicauda group is divided into three subspecies:

Three-toed amphiuma - The Three-toed Amphiuma is a species of aquatic salamander native to the southeastern United States.

Tiger Salamander - The Tiger Salamander is a species of Mole Salamander. The proper common name is the Eastern Tiger Salamander, to differentiate from other closely related species.

Tinkling froglet - This species is a small species of frog, up to 30mm in length. It is very similar to the Common Eastern Froglet, and can only readily be distinguished by call and a white stripe on the throat that reaches all the way to the tip on the snout. Its dorsal surface is variable, it can range from grey to brown and is normally smooth in texture. The dorsal surface can be spotted, plain, however it is normally striped. The ventral surface is faintly marbled black and white.

Titicaca Water Frog - In the early 1970s, an expedition led by Jacques Yves Cousteau reported frogs up to 50 cm long, with individuals commonly weighing a kilogram, making these the largest aquatic frogs in the world.

Togo Reed Frog - Hyperolius laticeps is a species of frog in the Hyperoliidae family. It is endemic to Togo. Its natural habitats are rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marches.

Tokyo salamander - The Tokyo Salamander is a species of salamander in the Hynobiidae family. It is endemic to Japan. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, freshwater springs, arable land, irrigated land, and canals and ditches. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Tomato frog - The Tomato Frog or Crapaud Rouge De Madagascar is a species of frog in the Microhylidae family. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, arable land, plantations , rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forest, ponds, and canals and ditches. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Tonkawa Springs Salamander - Eurycea tonkawae is the sister taxon to E. naufragia and E. chisolmensis, two other endemic perrenibranchiate central Texas salamanders.

Torrent tree frog - The Australian waterfall frog or torrent treefrog is a species of tree frog native to Far North Queensland, Australia. The common name of "waterfall frog" is indicative of its habitat of moist, rocky streams, and is often found along waterfalls within its range.

Tropical Frogs - Cycloramphus eleutherodactylus is a species of frog in the Leptodactylidae family. It is endemic to Brazil. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Tsushima Brown Frog - Its natural habitats are temperate forests, rivers, irrigated land, and canals and ditches.

Turkestanian salamander - The Turkestanian Salamander is a species of salamander in the Hynobiidae family. It is found in possibly Kyrgyzstan, possibly Tajikistan, and possibly Uzbekistan.

Tusked frog - The tusked frog is a unique frog within Australia, as it is the only species where the female is smaller than male. Males can reach a maximum length of about 5 centimetres , while females reach 4 centimetres . The common name of "tusked frog" derives from the small protrusions on the lower jaw, similar in position to tusks, which can reach about 5 millimetres in length in males. Male tusked frogs have a disproportionally large-sized head, compared to the body, and females have a smaller proportioned sized head than males. The dorsal surface of the frog is normally brown, but can be olive to black, with low ridges, warts and irregular darker markings. The ventral surface of this species is marbled black and white and the thighs are marbled red and black.

Tuwa Flying Frog - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Two-lined salamander - The Northern Two-lined Salamander is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family. It is found in Canada and the United States. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate shrubland, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater marshes, freshwater springs, arable land, and urban areas.

Two-toed amphiuma - Two-toed amphiumas are nocturnal and inflict nasty bites when disturbed. They are often difficult to handle because of their slippery skins. They may leave water temporarily if weather is wet enough and they dig burrows in muddy bottoms or it may invade the burrows of other marine creatures. Amphiumas breed from June to July in North Carolina and northern Florida. Females lay about 200 eggs in a damp cavity beneath debris and they remain coiled around them during incubation . Hatchlings are about 2.125 inches and are long with light-colored gills soon lost after hatching.

Tyler’s toadlet - This is a large frog , up to about 35mm. It is dark to light brown with some orange/yellow spotting on the dorsal surface. A pale crown is present on the head of this species, however is less distinct than in U. fusca and U. laevigata. It has large parotoid glands. There is a pale yellow patch in the armpits. The ventral surface of this species is fully pigmented dark blue/black. The thigh patch is yellow in colour. This species is very similar to the Smooth Toadlet and differences between the two are discussed on that page.

Tyrrhenian Painted Frog - The Tyrrhenian Painted Frog is a species of frog in the Discoglossidae family. It is found in Sardinia, Corsica and Tuscan Archipelago. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marches. It is threatened by habitat loss.