Leptodactylus

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

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 lepto- (‘thin, delicate’) and the Greek dactylos (δάκτυλος, ‘finger, toe’).[4]

Species

Smoky Jungle Frog, Leptodactylus pentadactylus

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

Incertae sedis

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 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.

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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