AmphibiaWeb

AmphibiaWeb is an American non-profit website that provides information about amphibians. It is run by a group of universities working with the California Academy of Sciences: San Francisco State University, the University of California at Berkeley, University of Florida at Gainesville, and University of Texas at Austin.

AmphibiaWeb's goal is to provide a single page for every species of amphibian in the world so research scientists, citizen scientists and conservationists can collaborate.^[1] It added its 7000th animal in 2012, a glass frog from Peru.^[2][3] As of 2022, it hosted more than 8,400 species located worldwide.^[4][5]

Scientist David Wake founded AmphibiaWeb in 2000. Wake had been inspired by the decline of amphibian populations across the world.^[6][7] He founded it at the Digital Library Project at the University of California at Berkeley in 2000. Wake came to consider AmphibiaWeb part of his legacy.^[3][8]

AmphibiaWeb provides information to the IUCN, CalPhotos, Encyclopedia of Life and iNaturalist,^[8] and the database is cited in scientific publications.^{[9][10][11][12]}

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