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List of amphibians of the Indiana Dunes

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionNov 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ6605785 ↗
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Indiana Dunes National Park is a National Park Service unit on the shore of Lake Michigan in Indiana, United States. A BioBlitz 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.

The park has completed numerous inventories over the years and has identified 18 unique species of amphibians within the park boundaries. The park represents the natural habitats along 25 miles of the Lake Michigan shoreline in Indiana.

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