Leptodactylus
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].
Selected species
- Leptodactylus ajurauna von Müller Berneck, Rocha da Costa & de Anchietta Garcia, 2008
- Leptodactylus albilabris – ranita de labio blanco (Spanish)
- Leptodactylus bolivianus – sapo-rana boliviano (Spanish)
- Leptodactylus bufonius
- Leptodactylus caatingae
- Leptodactylus camaquara
- Leptodactylus chaquensis – "rana criolla" (Spanish)
- Leptodactylus coca Angulo & Reichle, 2008
- Leptodactylus colombiensis
- Leptodactylus cunicularius
- Leptodactylus cupreus Caramaschi, Feio & São-Pedro, 2008
- Leptodactylus didymus
- Leptodactylus diedrus – sapito confuso (Spanish)
- Leptodactylus dominicensis – Hispaniolan Ditch Frog
- Leptodactylus elenae
- Leptodactylus fallax – Giant Ditch Frog, Mountain Chicken
- Leptodactylus flavopictus
- Leptodactylus fragilis – Mexican White-lipped Frog
- Leptodactylus furnarius
- Leptodactylus fuscus – rana picuda, rana silbador (Spanish)
- Leptodactylus gracilis
- Leptodactylus griseigularis
- Leptodactylus hallowelli
- Leptodactylus hylodes
- Leptodactylus jolyi
- Leptodactylus knudseni – sapo-toro amazonico (Spanish)
- Leptodactylus labrosus
- Leptodactylus labyrinthicus – rana pimienta, sapo-toro laberintico (Spanish)
- Leptodactylus laticeps – rana coralina, rana de los viscacheras (Spanish)
- Leptodactylus latinasus – Urnero
- Leptodactylus lauramiriamae Heyer & Crombie, 2005 - tentatively placed here
- Leptodactylus leptodactyloides – sapito leptodactilo (Spanish)
- Leptodactylus lithonaetes – sapo-rana rugoso occidental (Spanish)
- Leptodactylus longirostris – sapito silbador carilargo (Spanish)
- Leptodactylus magistris
- Leptodactylus marambaiae
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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