Biology:Leptodactylus

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Short description: Genus of amphibians

Leptodactylus
Leptodactylus albilabris.jpg
Leptodactylus albilabris
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
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 2005 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]

Species

Smoky jungle frog, Leptodactylus pentadactylus
Leptodactylus spixi

There are 84 species in this genus:[1]


Footnotes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Frost, Darrel R. (2023). "Leptodactylus Fitzinger, 1826". Amphibian Species of the World 6.1, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leptodactylinae/Leptodactylus. 
  2. "Leptodactylus fragilis". AmphibiaWeb. http://amphibiaweb.org/cgi/amphib_query?where-genus=Leptodactylus&where-species=fragilis. 
  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. https://books.google.com/books?id=2Hwfz9P9gS0C&pg=PR20. 

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

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q2501775 entry