Wikipedia

Leptodactylus

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]

Leptodactylus
Leptodactylus albilabris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Leptodactylidae
Subfamily: Leptodactylinae
Genus: Leptodactylus
Fitzinger, 1826
Species

Many—see text

Etymology

edit

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

Taxonomy

edit

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]

Species Group Species included Image
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]  

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]  

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]  

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]  

L. pentadactylus (smoky jungle frog)

Species

edit
 
Leptodactylus apepyta
 
Leptodactylus furnarius
 
Leptodactylus gracilis
 
Leptodactylus laticeps
 
Leptodactylus longirostris
 
Leptodactylus mystaceus
 
Leptodactylus mystacinus
 
Smoky jungle frog, Leptodactylus pentadactylus
 
Leptodactylus rhodomystax
 
Leptodactylus rhodonotus

There are 84 species in this genus:[1]

Footnotes

edit
  1. ^ a b 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. ^ a b c d 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. ^ a b c d 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. 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. 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.

References

edit
  • 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
edit
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leptodactylus&oldid=1245960207"