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Leptodactylus insularum

Leptodactylus insularum

Leptodactylus insularum Barbour 1906

Proposed English Name: Barbour's thin-toed frog.

Proposed Portuguese Name:

Proposed Spanish Name: Rana de dedos delgados de Barbour.

Other Published Names: Neotropical ditch frog (Hedges, http://evo.bio.psu.edu/caribherp/lists/wi-list.htm#lept), sapo-rana insular (Barrio, 1998); San Miguel island frog (Frank & Ramus, 1995).

Other Regional Names:

Comment: The species name means island dweller; however this species occurs extensively on the adjacent mainland to the islands where the species was originally described from.
Contributors: S. Blair Hedges

Photos

Leptodactylus insularum
Costa Rica; Puntarenas; Rincon de Osa
Photographer: © Roy W. McDiarmid
Leptodactylus insularum
Colombia; San Andrés y Providencia; Isla San Andrés
Photographer: © Roy W. McDiarmid
 
 

 
 
 
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