Biology:Leptodactylus
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Short description: Genus of amphibians
| Leptodactylus | |
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| Leptodactylus albilabris | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Leptodactylidae |
| Subfamily: | Leptodactylinae |
| Genus: | Leptodactylus Fitzinger, 1826 |
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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
There are 84 species in this genus:[1]
Footnotes
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Leptodactylus fragilis". AmphibiaWeb. http://amphibiaweb.org/cgi/amphib_query?where-genus=Leptodactylus&where-species=fragilis.
- ↑ Heyer & Crombie (2005)
- ↑ 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
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