Dr. Paul E. Ouboter is the director of the National Zoological Collection and a lecturer in Biodiversity and Conservation at the University of Suriname. He has published on freshwater fish, amphibians, reptiles and mammals, and on aquatic ecology and pollution, including the books "The Freshwater Ecosystems of Suriname' and "Ecological Studies on Crocodilians in Suriname". Rawien Jairam is a technician in the Vertebrate Department of the National Zoological Collection of the University of Suriname. He has a keen interest in amphibian diversity, and has started his own research on amphibian reproduction and tadpole development.

• PrefaceIntroductionGeography of SurninameMethodsANURAFamily AllophrynidaeFamily AromobatidaeSubfamily AllobatinaeSubfamily AnomaloglossinaeFamily BufonidaeFamily CentrolenidaeSubfamily CentroleninaeSubfamily HyalinobatrachiinaeFamily CeratophryidaeSubfamily CeratophryinaeFamily DendrobatidaeSubfamily ColostethinaeSubfamily DendrobatinaeFamily EleutherodactylidaeSubfamily EleutherodactylidaeFamily HylidaeSubfamily HylinaeSubfamily PhyllomedusinaeFamily LeiuperidaeFamily LeptodactylidaeFamily MicrohylidaeSubfamily GastrophryninaeSubfamily OtophryninaeFamily PipidaeFamily RanidaeFamily StrabomantidaeGYMNOPHIONAFamily CaeciliidaeFamily RhinatrematidaeSpecies that may occur in Suriname, but not yet recorded for sure or known from one specimen collected in the far past onlyZoogeographyConservation of Amphibians in SurinameBibliographyAppendixSubject IndexCommon Name Indextaxonomic Index