Leptodactylus | |
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Leptodactylus albilabris | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
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]
The genus Leptodactylus's sister taxon is the genus Hydrolaetare . [5]
The genus is composed of 4 species groups. [6] However, 3 species have not been assigned to a species group ( L. hylodes , L. lauramiriamae, L. ochraceus). [5]
There are 84 species in this genus: [1]