genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of
leptodactylid
The southern frogs form the Leptodactylidae, a name that comes from Greek meaning a bird or other animal having slender toes. They are a diverse family of frogs that most likely diverged from other hyloids during the Cretaceous. The family has u ...
frog
A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" '' Triadobatrachus'' is ...
s. It includes the
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), 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 ...
commonly called ditch frogs or white-lipped frogs. It is very similar to ''
Physalaemus
''Physalaemus'' is a large genus of leptodactylid
The southern frogs form the Leptodactylidae, a name that comes from Greek meaning a bird or other animal having slender toes. They are a diverse family of frogs that most likely diverged from o ...
'', a close relative, and indeed the recently described '' Leptodactylus lauramiriamae'' 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