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Common Thin-toed Frog

Leptodactylus leptodactyloides

Classification

Order
Anura

Leptodactylus leptodactyloides is a species of frogs in the family Leptodactylidae. It is endemic to the greater Amazon biome. Taxonomy and etymology The first description of the species was published in 1945 by Lars Gabriel Andersson, who placed it in the genus Eleutherodactylus and gave it the specific name leptodactyloides; Leptodactylus, from the Greek leptos ('fine', 'slender', 'thin') and daktylos ('digits', 'fingers'), with the generic Latin suffix -us replaced with -oides, derived from the Greek -oeidēs ('resembling', 'form of').

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Peru · 40Brazil · 25