{{Short description|Database of amphibian species of the world}} {{Infobox company | name = AmphibiaWeb | logo = | type = Synthesizing and sharing information about amphibians to enable research, education, and conservation | company_slogan = | foundation = 2000, California, United States | location = | key_people = | industry = Herpetology | products = | revenue = | num_employees = | homepage = [http://www.amphibiaweb.org/ www.amphibiaweb.org] }}
'''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.<ref name="Science">{{cite journal|journal=Science|volume=305|title=DATABASE: Down at the Frog Pond|date=September 10, 2004|issue=5690|doi=10.1126/science.305.5690.1543a |page=1543|s2cid=220104410|doi-access=free}}</ref> It added its 7000th animal in 2012, a glass frog from Peru.<ref name=Song>{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2012/08/02/157880479/discovery-of-7-000th-amphibian-celebrated-in-song|publisher=NPR|access-date=April 10, 2022|title=Discovery Of 7,000th Amphibian Celebrated In Song|date=August 2, 2012|author=All Things Considered}}</ref><ref name="Berk">{{cite news|url=https://news.berkeley.edu/2012/07/30/despite-global-amphibian-decline-number-of-known-species-soars/|publisher=University California at Berkeley|title=Despite global amphibian decline, number of known species soars|date=July 30, 2012|author=Robert Sanders|access-date=July 2, 2020}}</ref> As of 2022, it hosted more than 8,400 species located worldwide.<ref name="About">{{cite web|url=https://amphibiaweb.org/about/index.html|access-date=April 10, 2022|title=About Amphibiaweb|publisher=AmphibiaWeb|author=AmphibiaWeb Team}}</ref><ref name="Biol">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4RkyAwAAQBAJ&dq=Do+scientists+use+AmphibiaWeb+as+a+standard&pg=PA320|access-date=July 2, 2020|page=320|publisher=CRC Press|author=Diane Schmidtt|title=Using the Biological Literature: A Practical Guide|edition=4|year=2014|isbn=978-1-4665-5857-1}}</ref>
==Origins==
Scientist David Wake founded AmphibiaWeb in 2000. Wake had been inspired by the decline of amphibian populations across the world.<ref name=NYTWake>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/science/david-wake-dead.html|access-date=June 4, 2021|date=May 19, 2021|work=The New York Times|author=Richard Sandomir|title=David Wake, Expert on Salamanders and Evolution, Dies at 84}}</ref><ref name=Sci>{{cite news|title=Salamander Expert David Wake Dies at 84|access-date=June 4, 2021|publisher=Scientist|author=Lisa Winter|date=May 21, 2021|url=https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/salamander-expert-david-wake-dies-at-84-68788}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Berk" /><ref name="MVZ">{{cite news|publisher=Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkeley|url=http://mvz.berkeley.edu/Amphibiaweb_info.html|title=AmphibiaWeb Project|access-date=July 2, 2020|archive-date=February 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220223139/http://mvz.berkeley.edu/Amphibiaweb_info.html}}</ref>
==Uses==
AmphibiaWeb provides information to the IUCN, CalPhotos, Encyclopedia of Life and iNaturalist,<ref name="MVZ" /> and the database is cited in scientific publications.<ref name="PubMedCentral">{{cite journal|author1=Yap, T. A.|author2= Koo, M. S.|author3=Ambrose, R. F.|author4=Vredenburg, V. T.|year=2018|title=Introduced bullfrog facilitates pathogen invasion in the western United States.|journal= PLOS ONE|volume=13|issue=4|article-number= e0188384|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0188384|pmid= 29659568|pmc= 5901863|bibcode= 2018PLoSO..1388384Y|doi-access= free}}</ref><ref name="EJT">{{cite journal|url=https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/582|title=Two new Pandanus frogs (Guibemantis: Mantellidae: Anura) from northern Madagascar|author1=Richard M. Lehtinen|author2=Frank Glaw|author3=Miguel Vences|author4=Andolalao Rakotoarison|author5=Mark D. Scherz|year=2018|access-date=July 2, 2020|doi=10.5852/ejt.2018.451|journal=European Journal of Taxonomy|issue=451|s2cid=91855421|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="PubMed1">{{cite journal|author1=Mu L|author2=Zhou L|author3=Yang J|title=The first identified cathelicidin from tree frogs possesses anti-inflammatory and partial LPS neutralization activities. |journal=Amino Acids|year=2017|volume=49|issue=9|pages=1571–1585|doi=10.1007/s00726-017-2449-7|pmid=28593346|pmc=5561178}}</ref><ref name="Pubmed2">{{cite journal|author1=Zhan X|author2=Wu H|author3=Wu H|title=Metabolites from Bufo gargarizans (Cantor, 1842): A review of traditional uses, pharmacological activity, toxicity and quality control|journal=Journal of Ethnopharmacology|publisher=J Ethnopharmacol|year=2020|volume=246|article-number=112178|doi=10.1016/j.jep.2019.112178|pmid=31445132|s2cid=208582111}}</ref>
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