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Leptodactylus

Leptodactylus is a genus of leptodactylid frogs. It includes the species commonly called ditch frogs or white-lipped frogs. It is very similar to Physalaemus, a close relative, and indeed the 2005 described Leptodactylus lauramiriamae is in some aspects intermediate between them.

Etymology

The name means 'slender finger', from ' ('thin, delicate') and the Greek ' (, 'finger, toe').

Taxonomy

The genus Leptodactylus<nowiki/>'s sister taxon is the genus Hydrolaetare.

The genus is composed of four species groups. However, three species have not been assigned to a species group (L. hylodes, L. lauramiriamae, L. ochraceus).

Species

There are 84 species in this genus:

Footnotes

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. <small>DOI: 10.2988/0006-324X(2005)118[590:LLADNS]2.0.CO;2</small> HTML abstract

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