Leptodactylus

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Leptodactylus
Leptodactylus albilabris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Subclass: Lissamphibia
Order: Anura
Suborder: Neobatrachia
Family: Leptodactylidae
Subfamily: Leptodactylinae
Genus: Leptodactylus
Fitzinger, 1826
Species

Many, see text.

Leptodactylus is a genus of leptodactylid frogs. It includes the species commonly called ditch frogs. It is very similar to Physalaemus, a close relative, and indeed the recently-rescribed Leptodactylus lauramiriamae is in some aspects intermediate between them[1].

[edit] Selected species

Smoky Jungle Frog, Leptodactylus pentadactylus
Smoky Jungle Frog, Leptodactylus pentadactylus

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Heyer & Crombie (2005)

[edit] References

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  • 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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