The recognition of cryptic species increases the conservation burden, but it also emphasizes the importance and need to move away from taxon-based conservation to that emphasizing conservation of landscapes and ecosystems (Lovich and Gibbons 1997). Despite our poor knowledge of amphibian distribution and diversity, what we know of their biology, biogeography, and ecology, coupled with recent findings from extensive surveys, allows us to make some predictions, albeit tentative, of which ecoregions are likely to harbor the highest amphibian diversity. Inventories in tropical moist (especially the border areas between China, India,and Myanmar ), and the western Ghats of India are now grossly incomplete and probably will yield many new amphibians in comprehensive surveys.