The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore

Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore

Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore is a U.S. National Lakeshore located in northwest Indiana and managed by the National Park Service. It was authorized by Congress in 1966. The national lakeshore runs for nearly along the southern shore of Lake Michigan, from Gary, Indiana, on the west to Michigan...

 is a National Park Service

National Park Service

The National Park Service is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations...

 unit on the shore of Lake Michigan

Lake Michigan

Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States. It is the second largest of the Great Lakes by volume and the third largest by surface area, after Lake Superior and Lake Huron...

 in Indiana

Indiana

Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...

, USA. A BioBlitz

BioBlitz

A BioBlitz, also written without capitals bioblitz, is an intense period of biological surveying in an attempt to record all the living species within a designated area. Groups of scientists, naturalists and volunteers conduct an intensive field study over a short, usually 24 hour, time...

 took place there on May 15 and 16, 2009. During that time, a list of organisms was compiled which included a preliminary listing of the (freshwater) amphibians of the area.

List of amphibian species

The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore is a National Parks Service unit on the shore of Lake Michigan in Indiana, USA. The park has completed numerous inventories over the years and has identified 18 unique species of amphibians without the park boundaries. The park represents the natural habitats along 25 miles of the Lake Michigan

Lake Michigan

Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States. It is the second largest of the Great Lakes by volume and the third largest by surface area, after Lake Superior and Lake Huron...

 shoreline in Indiana

Indiana

Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...

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Salamanders (Caudata)

• Ambystoma (Mole salamanders)
• Ambystoma jeffersonianum, Jefferson Salamander
  Jefferson Salamander
  The Jefferson salamander is a mole salamander native to the northeastern United States, southern and central Ontario, and southwestern Quebec. It was named after Jefferson College in Pennsylvania....
  
  
• Ambystoma laterale -Blue-spotted Salamander
• Ambystoma tigrinum tigrinum - Tiger Salamander
• Plethodon cinereus  - Red Back Salamander

Toads and Frogs (Anura)

• Acris crepitans
  Acris crepitans
  The Northern Cricket Frog is a species of small Hylid frog native to the United States and northeastern Mexico. Despite being members of the tree frog family, they are not arboreal...
  
   blanchardi - Northern Cricket Frog
• Bufo americanus / Anaxyrus americanus - American toad
• Bufo fowleri
  Bufo fowleri
  Fowler's Toad is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family found in North America. It was previously considered a subspecies of Woodhouse's Toad.-Physical Description:...
  
   / Anaxyrus fowleri - Fowler's Toad
• Hyla versicolor - Gray tree frog
• Pseudacris crucifer - Spring Peeper
• Pseudacris triseriata - Western Chorus Frog
• Rana catesbeiana / Lithobates catesbeiana - Bullfrog
• Rana clamitans melanota - Northern Green Frog
• Rana pipiens / Lithobates pipiens - Northern Leopard Frog
• Rana sylvatica / Lithobates sylvaticus - Wood Frog

Newt

• Notophthalmus viridescens louisianensis - eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens)