Leptodactylus

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Leptodactylus
Leptodactylus albilabris.jpg
Leptodactylus albilabris
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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]

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Etymology

The name means 'slender finger', from leptos ('thin, delicate') and the Greek daktylos ( δάκτυλος , 'finger, toe'). [4]

Taxonomy

The genus Leptodactylus's sister taxon is the genus Hydrolaetare . [5]

The genus is composed of four species groups. [6] However, three species have not been assigned to a species group ( L. hylodes , L. lauramiriamae, L. ochraceus). [5]

Species GroupSpecies includedImage
Leptodactylus fuscus

group

 L. apepyta , [7] L. barrioi , L. albilabris , L. bufonius , L. caatingae , L. camaquara, L. cunicularius , L. cupreus, L. didymus, L. elenae, L. fragilis, L. furnarius , L. fuscus , L. gracilis , L. jolyi, L. kilombo , L. labrosus , L. laticeps , L. latinasus , L. longirostris , L. marambaiae , L. mystaceus , L. mystacinus , L. notoaktites , L. oreomantis , L. plaumanni , L. poecilochilus , L. sertanejo , L. spixi , L. syphax , L. tapiti, L. troglodytes , L. ventrimaculatus , L. watu [5] [8] Leptodactylus fuscus02.jpg

L. fuscus (whistling grass frog)

Leptodactylus melanonotus group L. brevipes, L. colombiensis, L. discodactylus, L. diedrus, L. fremitus , L. grisegularis, L. intermedius, L. leptodactyloides, L. magistris, L. melanonotus, L. natalensis, L. nesiotus, L. pascoensis, L. petersii, L. podicipinus, L. pustulatus, L. riveroi, L. sabanensis, L. validus, L. wagneri [9] [6] [10] [11] Leptodactylus melanonotus 61552570.jpg

L. melanonotus (Sabinal frog)

Leptodactylus latrans

group

 L. bolivianus, L. guianensis, L. insularum, L. latrans, L. luctator, L. macrosternum, L. paranaru, L. payaya, L. silvanimbus, L. viridis [6] Leptodactylus ocellatus01c.jpg

L. latrans (butter frog)

Leptodactylus pentadactylus

group

 L. fallax , L. flavopictus, L. knudseni, L. labyrinthicus, L. laticeps , L. lithonaetes, L. myersi, L. paraensis, L. pentadactylus, L. peritoaktites, L. rhodomerus, L. rhodomystax, L. rhodonotus, L. rugosus, L. savagei , L. stenodema , L. turimiquensis , L. vastus [12] [6] [5] Smoky Jungle Frog (Leptodactylus pentadactylus) (6941271108).jpg

L. pentadactylus (smoky jungle frog)

Species

Leptodactylus apepyta Leptodactylus apepyta.png
Leptodactylus apepyta
Leptodactylus furnarius Leptodactylus furnarius02 (cropped).jpg
Leptodactylus furnarius
Leptodactylus gracilis Rana saltadora (Leptodactylus gracilis), Uruguay, 2020 (cropped).jpg
Leptodactylus gracilis
Leptodactylus laticeps Leptodactylus laticeps (cropped).jpg
Leptodactylus laticeps
Leptodactylus longirostris Leptodactylus longirostris (10.5852-ejt.2022.836.1919) Figure 5 (cropped).png
Leptodactylus longirostris
Leptodactylus mystaceus Leptodactylus mystaceus 2 (10.5852-ejt.2022.836.1919) Figure 5 (cropped) (cropped).png
Leptodactylus mystaceus
Leptodactylus mystacinus Leptodactylus mystacinus05.jpg
Leptodactylus mystacinus
Smoky jungle frog, Leptodactylus pentadactylus Smokey Jungle Frog 3.jpg
Smoky jungle frog, Leptodactylus pentadactylus
Leptodactylus rhodomystax Leptodactylus rhodomystax 182386098 (cropped).jpg
Leptodactylus rhodomystax
Leptodactylus rhodonotus Leptodactylus rhodonotus.jpg
Leptodactylus rhodonotus

There are 84 species in this genus: [1]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Frost, Darrel R. (2023). "Leptodactylus Fitzinger, 1826". Amphibian Species of the World 6.1, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
  2. ↑ "Leptodactylus fragilis". AmphibiaWeb. Retrieved 2012-06-08.
  3. ↑ Heyer & Crombie (2005)
  4. ↑ Dodd, C. Kenneth (2013). Frogs of the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 20. ISBN   978-1-4214-0633-6.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Sá, Rafael O. de; Grant, Taran; Camargo, Arley; Heyer, W. Ronald; Ponssa, Maria L.; Stanley, Edward (September 2014). "Systematics of the Neotropical Genus Leptodactylus Fitzinger, 1826 (Anura: Leptodactylidae): Phylogeny, the Relevance of Non-molecular Evidence, and Species Accounts". South American Journal of Herpetology. 9 (s1): S1 –S100. doi:10.2994/SAJH-D-13-00022.1. hdl: 11336/12350 . ISSN   1808-9798.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Magalhães, Felipe de M.; Lyra, Mariana L.; de Carvalho, Thiago R.; Baldo, Diego; Brusquetti, Francisco; Burella, Pamela; Colli, Guarino R.; Gehara, Marcelo C.; Giaretta, Ariovaldo A.; Haddad, Célio F.B.; Langone, José A.; López, Javier A.; Napoli, Marcelo F.; Santana, Diego J.; de Sá, Rafael O. (2020-12-11). "Taxonomic Review of South American Butter Frogs: Phylogeny, Geographic Patterns, and Species Delimitation in the Leptodactylus latrans Species Group (Anura: Leptodactylidae)" . Herpetological Monographs. 34 (1). doi:10.1655/0733-1347-31.4.131. ISSN   0733-1347.
  7. ↑ Schneider, Rosio G.; Cardozo, Dario E.; Brusquetti, Francisco; Kolenc, Francisco; Borteiro, Claudio; Haddad, Célio; Basso, Nestor G.; Baldo, Diego (2019-10-11). "A new frog of the Leptodactylus fuscus species group (Anura: Leptodactylidae), endemic from the South American Gran Chaco". PeerJ. 7 e7869. doi: 10.7717/peerj.7869 . ISSN   2167-8359. PMC   6791353 . PMID   31616603.
  8. ↑ Da Silva, Leandro A.; MagalhãEs, Felipe M.; Thomassen, Hans; Leite, Felipe S. F.; Garda, Adrian A.; BrandãO, Reuber A.; Haddad, CéLio F. B.; Giaretta, Ariovaldo A.; De Carvalho, Thiago R. (2020-05-19). "Unraveling the species diversity and relationships in the Leptodactylus mystaceus complex (Anura: Leptodactylidae), with the description of three new Brazilian species" . Zootaxa. 4779 (2). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4779.2.1. hdl: 11449/200443 . ISSN   1175-5334.
  9. ↑ Heyer, W. Ronald (1969). "The Adaptive Ecology of the Species Groups of the Genus Leptodactylus (Amphibia, Leptodactylidae)". Evolution. 23 (3): 421–428. doi:10.2307/2406697. ISSN   0014-3820. JSTOR   2406697. PMID   28562917.
  10. ↑ Gazoni, Thiago; Lyra, Mariana L.; Ron, Santiago R.; Strüssmann, Christine; Baldo, Diego; Narimatsu, Hideki; Pansonato, André; Schneider, Rosío G.; Giaretta, Ariovaldo A.; Haddad, Célio F. B.; Parise-Maltempi, Patricia P.; Carvalho, Thiago R. (2021-01-01). "Revisiting the systematics of the Leptodactylus melanonotus group (Anura: Leptodactylidae): Redescription of L. petersii and revalidation of its junior synonyms". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 290: 117–134. Bibcode:2021ZooAn.290..117G. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2020.12.002. hdl: 11449/209999 . ISSN   0044-5231.
  11. ↑ Carvalho, Thiago R.; Fouquet, Antoine; Lyra, Mariana L.; Giaretta, Ariovaldo A.; Costa-Campos, C. Eduardo; Rodrigues, Miguel T.; Haddad, Célio F. B.; Ron, Santiago R. (2022-12-31). "Species diversity and systematics of the Leptodactylus melanonotus group (Anura, Leptodactylidae): review of diagnostic traits and a new species from the Eastern Guiana Shield". Systematics and Biodiversity. 20 (1): 1–31. doi:10.1080/14772000.2022.2089269. ISSN   1477-2000.
  12. ↑ Heyer, W. Ronald (2005-11-30). "Variation and taxonomic clarification of the large species of the Leptodactylus pentadactylus species group (Amphibia: Leptodactylidae) from Middle America, Northern South America, and Amazonia". Arquivos de Zoologia (in Portuguese). 37 (3): 269–348. doi:10.11606/issn.2176-7793.v37i3p269-348. ISSN   2176-7793.

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