Striped-pants Jungle Frog

About the Striped-pants Jungle Frog

Leptodactylus leptodactyloides is a species of frogs in the family Leptodactylidae. It is endemic to the greater Amazon biome. 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').

The species was moved to Leptodactylus by Ronald Heyer in 1994, resulting in the tautology Leptodactylus leptodactyloides. Male L. leptodactyloides usually have snout–vent lengths length of 28–48 mm (1.1–1.9 in) and females to 35–57 mm (1.4–2.2 in). The frogs builds foam nests for their eggs. The female frog has shown parental care; if the tadpoles deplete the food in one pool of water, she will dig a channel to another.

L. leptodactyloides is endemic to the Amazon biome, being found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela. It... Wikipedia →