The Lenca leopard frog (''Lithobates lenca'') is a species of true frog found in the Chortis Highlands of southwestern

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, ...

at altitudes of 1560 to 2080 m. This frog was long thought to be a hybrid between the two lowland species ''

Lithobates brownorum ''Lithobates brownorum'', commonly known as Browns' leopard frog, is a species of frog native to southern Veracruz and northeastern Oaxaca east through the Yucatan Peninsula and the uplands of Chiapas in southern Mexico through Guatemala and Hon ...

'' and ''Lithobates forreri'' until 2018 when DNA tests proved the highland leopard frogs to be a distinct species. They are smaller in size but have larger heads than the two lowland species, with males growing between 46.6–64.3 mm (1.83–2.53 in) while females grow between 43.7–76.3 mm (1.72–3 in). The Lenca leopard frog is named after the

Lenca The Lenca,are an Indigenous people from present day southwest Honduras and eastern El Salvador in Central America. They historically spoke various dialects of the Lencan languages such as Chilanga, Putun (Potón), and Kotik, but today are nat ...

people, who inhabit the same mountainous region as the frog.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q97194387 Lithobates True frogs Amphibians described in 2018 Central American montane forests