AmphibiaWeb is an American non-profit website that shows information aboutamphibians, for examplefrogs andsalamanders. It is run by a group of universities working with theCalifornia Academy of Sciences:San Francisco State University, theUniversity of California at Berkeley,University of Florida at Gainesville, andUniversity of Texas at Austin.

AmphibiaWeb's goal is to provide an information page for every species of amphibian in the world so research scientists,citizen scientists andpeople who want to help the environment can work together.^[1] It added its 7000th animal in 2012, aglass frog fromPeru.^[2] As of 2022, it hosted more than 8,400 species from all over the world.^[3][4]

ScientistDavid Wake founded AmphibiaWeb in 2000.^[5][6] He founded it at the Digital Library Project at the University of California at Berkeley in 2000. It was a class project.^[2][7]

AmphibiaWeb gives information to theIUCN, CalPhotos,Encyclopedia of Life andiNaturalist.^[7]

Professional scientists use AmphibiaWeb in their papers. It has been cited in many journals, for examplePLOS One,^[8]The European Journal of Taxonomy,^[9]Amino Acids^[10] andThe Journal of Ethnopharmacology.^[11]

Many libraries recommend AmphibiaWeb to readers, includingUNLV University Libraries,^[12]Stony Brook University Libraries,^[13] the College of Wooster Libraries^[14] andJames Cook University Libraries.^[15]

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