Leptodactylus Explained

Leptodactylus is a genus of leptodactylid frogs. It includes the species commonly called ditch frogs or white-lipped frogs.^[1] It is very similar to Physalaemus, a close relative, and indeed the 2005 described Leptodactylus lauramiriamae is in some aspects intermediate between them.^[2] The name means ‘slender finger’, from leptos (‘thin, delicate’) and the Greek (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: [[wikt:δάκτυλος|δάκτυλος]], ‘finger, toe’).^[3]

Species

There are 84 species in this genus:^[4]

References

• (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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Leptodactylus fragilis . AmphibiaWeb . 2012-06-08.
2. Heyer & Crombie (2005)
3. Book: Dodd, C. Kenneth. Frogs of the United States and Canada. 1. 2013. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 978-1-4214-0633-6. 20.
4. Web site: Leptodactylus Fitzinger, 1826 . Frost, Darrel R. . 2023 . Amphibian Species of the World 6.1, an Online Reference . American Museum of Natural History . 19 January 2023.