Leptodactylus

Leptodactylus is a group of frogs. Some of these frogs are called ditch frogs or white-lipped frogs in English. It is very similar to Physalaemus, a close relative, and indeed the 2005 described Leptodactylus lauramiriamae is in some aspects intermediate between them.Heyer & Crombie (2005)

 Name
The name means "thin finger," from leptos ("thin, delicate") and the Greek (δάκτυλος, "finger, toe").

 Grouping 
The genus Leptodactylus's sister taxon is the genus Hydrolaetare.

There are four groups of species in this genus. However, three species have not been assigned to a species group (L. hylodes, L. lauramiriamae, L. ochraceus). 
+Species GroupSpecies includedImageLeptodactylus fuscus 
groupL. apepyta, 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. watuframeless
L. fuscus (whistling grass frog)Leptodactylus melanonotus groupL. 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. wagneriframeless
L. melanonotus (Sabinal frog)Leptodactylus latrans 
groupL. bolivianus, L. guianensis, L. insularum, L. latrans, L. luctator, L. macrosternum, L. paranaru, L. payaya, L. silvanimbus, L. viridisframeless
L. latrans (butter frog)Leptodactylus pentadactylus 
groupL. 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. vastusframeless
L. pentadactylus (smoky jungle frog)

Species
There are 84 species in this genus:

Footnotes

References
  (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

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