Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Leptodactylus rhodomystax Boulenger, 1884 "1883", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1883: 637. Syntypes: BMNH (2 specimens); BMNH 1947.12.17.81 designated lectotype by Heyer, 1979, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 301: 30. Type locality: "Yurimaguas, Huallaga River, [Loreto,] Northern Peru".

Leptodactylus stictigularis Noble, 1923, Zoologica, New York, 3: 293. Holotype: AMNH 10398, by original designation. Type locality: "Kartabo, British Guiana". Synonymy by Parker, 1935, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1935: 508; Heyer, 1979, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 301: 30.

English Names

Loreto White-lipped Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 82).

Rose-lipped Thin-toed Frog (Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park, 5: 226).

Distribution

Guianas through northern and central Brazil to Amazonian Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.

Comment

In the Leptodactylus pentadactylus group of Heyer, 1972, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 231: 1-8, and Heyer, 1979, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 301: 1-43. See comment under Leptodactylus riveroi. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 250-251, provided a photo and brief account for French Guiana. See comment under Leptodactylus riveroi. Gorzula and Señaris, 1999 "1998", Scient. Guaianae, 8: 56, note a specimen which may be the first record for Venezuela, the previous records being misidentified examples of Leptodactylus riveroi. Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park, 5: 226-227, provided an account. MacCulloch and Lathrop, 2009, R. Ontario Mus. Contrib. Sci., 4: 15, commented on specimens from Mount Ayanganna, Guyana. See account for Surinam population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 260-261.

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