Leptodactylus

Leptodactylus is a genus of leptodactylid frogs.[1] It includes the species commonly called ditch frogs or white-lipped frogs.[2] It is very similar to Physalaemus, a close relative, and indeed the recently described Leptodactylus lauramiriamae is in some aspects intermediate between them.[3] The name means ‘slender finger’, from leptos (‘thin, delicate’) and the Greek daktylos (δάκτυλος, ‘finger, toe’).[4]

Leptodactylus
Leptodactylus albilabris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Leptodactylidae
Subfamily: Leptodactylinae
Genus: Leptodactylus
Fitzinger, 1826
Species

Many—see text

Species

Smoky Jungle Frog, Leptodactylus pentadactylus

There are about 75 species in this genus:[1]

Footnotes

  1. Frost, Darrel R. (2013). "Leptodactylus Fitzinger, 1826". Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
  2. "Leptodactylus fragilis". AmphibiaWeb. Retrieved 2012-06-08.
  3. Heyer & Crombie (2005)
  4. Dodd, C. Kenneth (2013). Frogs of the United States and Canada. 1. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-4214-0633-6.
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References

  • Heyer, W. Ronald & Crombie, Ronald I. (2005): Leptodactylus lauramiriamae, a distinctive new species of frog (Amphibia: Anura: Leptodactylidae) from Rondônia, Brazil. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 118(3): 590–595. DOI: 10.2988/0006-324X(2005)118[590:LLADNS]2.0.CO;2 HTML abstract
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