Southern Frogs
Leptodactylidae
The southern frogs form the Leptodactylidae, a diverse family of frogs that probably diverged from other hyloids during the Cretaceous. The family has undergone major taxonomic revisions in recent years, including the reclassification of the former subfamily Eleutherodactylinae into its own family the Eleutherodactylidae; the Leptodactylidae now number 206 species in 15 genera distributed throughout Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. The family includes terrestrial, burrowing, aquatic, and arboreal members, inhabiting a wide range...
4 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 243 known species
Leptodactylinae
subfamilyLeptodactylinae
Leiuperinae
subfamilyLeiuperinae
Paratelmatobiinae
subfamilyParatelmatobiinae
Leptodactylus ochraceus
speciesLeptodactylus ochraceus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 22085.