Leptodactylidae
Leptodactylids
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- Adenomera +
- Alsodes +
- Atelognathus +
- Atopophrynus +
- Barycholos +
- Batrachophrynus +
- Batrachyla +
- Caudiverbera +
- Ceratophrys +
- Chacophrys +
- Crossodactylodes +
- Crossodactylus +
- Cycloramphus +
- Dischidodactylus +
- Edalorhina +
- Eleutherodactylus +
- Euparkerella +
- Eupsophus +
- Geobatrachus +
- Holoaden +
- Hydrolaetare +
- Hylodes +
- Hylorina +
- Insuetophrynus +
- Ischnocnema +
- Lepidobatrachus +
- Leptodactylus +
- Limnomedusa +
- Lithodytes +
- Macrogenioglottus +
- Megaelosia +
- Odontophrynus +
- Paratelmatobius +
- Phrynocerus +
- Phrynopus +
- Phyllonastes +
- Physalaemus +
- Phyzelaphryne +
- Pleurodema +
- Proceratophrys +
- Pseudopaludicola +
- Rupirana +
- Scythrophrys +
- Somuncuria +
- Telmatobius +
- Telmatobufo +
- Thoropa +
- Vanzolinius +
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Introduction
Leptodactylids are a large and diverse group of frogs with most of their diversity in South and Central America and the West Indes. There are about 50 genera with 700 species; the genus Eleutherodactylus has about 400 species. Leptodactylids barely reach into the United States, and are not present in Europe, Africa, or Asia. Most leptodactylids are brownish or grayish, and on the whole lack bright colors seen in some other groups.
Variation in size is extreme; some are as small as 12 mm (Sminthillus limbatus) and as large as 250 mm. There is much diversity in habits. Lithodytes lineatus is a forest-floor dweller. Some species of Eleutherodactylus are arboreal. Telmatobius are highly aquatic. Ceratophrys has a huge head and mouth, and eats other vertebrates. The fossil record is sparse; †Wawelia is known from the Upper Miocene and †Neoprocoela from the Lower Oligocene, both of Argentina. A few other genera are present in Pleistocene deposits.
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