page_title: Leptodactylus
section_title: Species
hierarchical_section_title: Leptodactylus / Species
caption_attribution_description: Leptodactylus spixi
context_page_description: Leptodactylus is a genus of leptodactylid frogs. It includes the species commonly called ditch frogs or white-lipped frogs. It is very similar to Physalaemus, a close relative, and indeed the recently described Leptodactylus lauramiriamae is in some aspects intermediate between them.
  The name means ‘slender finger’, from leptos and the Greek daktylos.
context_section_description: There are about 75 species in this genus:
  Leptodactylus albilabris (Günther, 1859) – Hispaniolan ditch frog
  Leptodactylus apepyta Schneider, Cardozo, Brusquetti, Kolenc, Borteiro, Haddad, Basso, and Baldo, 2019
  Leptodactylus bolivianus Boulenger, 1898
  Leptodactylus bufonius Boulenger, 1894
  Leptodactylus caatingae Heyer and Juncá, 2003
  Leptodactylus camaquara Sazima and Bokermann, 1978
  Leptodactylus chaquensis Cei, 1950
  Leptodactylus colombiensis Heyer, 1994
  Leptodactylus cunicularius Sazima and Bokermann, 1978
  Leptodactylus cupreus Caramaschi, Feio, and São Pedro, 2008
  Leptodactylus didymus Heyer, García-Lopez, and Cardoso, 1996
  Leptodactylus diedrus Heyer, 1994
  Leptodactylus discodactylus Boulenger, 1884
  Leptodactylus elenae Heyer, 1978
  Leptodactylus fallax Müller, 1926 – giant ditch frog, mountain chicken
  Leptodactylus flavopictus Lutz, 1926
  Leptodactylus fragilis (Brocchi, 1877) – Mexican white-lipped frog
  Leptodactylus furnarius Sazima and Bokermann, 1978
  Leptodactylus fuscus (Schneider, 1799)
  Leptodactylus gracilis (Duméril and Bibron, 1840)
  Leptodactylus griseigularis (Henle, 1981)
  Leptodactylus guianensis Heyer and de Sá, 2011
  Leptodactylus hylodes (Reinhardt and Lütken, 1862)
  Leptodactylus insularum Barbour, 1906
  Leptodactylus jolyi Sazima and Bokermann, 1978
  Leptodactylus knudseni Heyer, 1972
  Leptodactylus labrosus Jiménez de la Espada, 1875
  Leptodactylus labyrinthicus (Spix, 1824)
  Leptodactylus laticeps Boulenger, 1918
  Leptodactylus latinasus Jiménez de la Espada, 1875 – Urnero
  Leptodactylus latrans (Steffen, 1815)
  Leptodactylus lauramiriamae Heyer and Crombie, 2005
  Leptodactylus leptodactyloides (Andersson, 1945)
  Leptodactylus lithonaetes Heyer, 1995
  Leptodactylus longirostris Boulenger, 1882
  Leptodactylus macrosternum Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926
  Leptodactylus magistris Mijares-Urrutia, 1997
  Leptodactylus marambaiae Izecksohn, 1976
  Leptodactylus melanonotus (Hallowell, 1861)
  Leptodactylus myersi Heyer, 1995
  Leptodactylus mystaceus (Spix, 1824)
  Leptodactylus mystacinus (Burmeister, 1861)
  Leptodactylus natalensis Lutz, 1930
  Leptodactylus nesiotus Heyer, 1994
  Leptodactylus notoaktites Heyer, 1978
  Leptodactylus oreomantis Carvalho, Leite, and Pezzuti, 2013
  Leptodactylus paraensis Heyer, 2005
  Leptodactylus pascoensis Heyer, 1994
  Leptodactylus pentadactylus (Laurenti, 1768) – smoky jungle frog
  Leptodactylus peritoaktites Heyer, 2005
  Leptodactylus petersii (Steindachner, 1864)
  Leptodactylus plaumanni Ahl, 1936
  Leptodactylus podicipinus (Cope, 1862)
  Leptodactylus poecilochilus (Cope, 1862)
  Leptodactylus pustulatus (Peters, 1870)
  Leptodactylus rhodomerus Heyer, 2005
  Leptodactylus rhodomystax Boulenger, 1884
  Leptodactylus rhodonotus (Günther, 1869)
  Leptodactylus riveroi Heyer and Pyburn, 1983
  Leptodactylus rugosus Noble, 1923
  Leptodactylus sabanensis Heyer, 1994
  Leptodactylus savagei Heyer, 2005
  Leptodactylus sertanejo Giaretta and Costa, 2007
  Leptodactylus silvanimbus McCranie, Wilson, and Porras, 1980
  Leptodactylus spixi Heyer, 1983
  Leptodactylus stenodema Jiménez de la Espada, 1875
  Leptodactylus syphax Bokermann, 1969
  Leptodactylus tapiti Sazima and Bokermann, 1978
  Leptodactylus troglodytes Lutz, 1926
  Leptodactylus turimiquensis Heyer, 2005
  Leptodactylus validus Garman, 1888 – windward ditch frog
  Leptodactylus vastus Lutz, 1930
  Leptodactylus ventrimaculatus Boulenger, 1902
  Leptodactylus viridis Jim and Spirandeli Cruz, 1973
  Leptodactylus wagneri (Peters, 1862)
caption: Leptodactylus spixi
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