genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
frog
A frog is any member of a diverse and largely Carnivore, carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order (biology), order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-f ...
s. It includes the
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
commonly called ditch frogs or white-lipped frogs. It is very similar to ''
Physalaemus
''Physalaemus'' is a large genus of leptodactylid frogs. These frogs, sometimes known as dwarf frogs or foam frogs, are found in South America. It is very similar to ''Leptodactylus'', a close relative, and indeed the recently rescribed ''Leptod ...
'', a close relative, and indeed the recently described ''
Leptodactylus lauramiriamae
''Leptodactylus'' is a genus of leptodactylid frogs. It includes the species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as ...
'' is in some aspects intermediate between them.
The name means ‘slender finger’, from '' leptos'' (‘thin, delicate’) and the Greek ' (, ‘finger, toe’).
Species
There are about 75 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 90:LLADNS.0.CO;2HTML abstract