Leptodactylus fragilis (Brocchi 1877)

Barrio-Amorós, César L., Rojas-Runjaic, Fernando J. M. & Señaris, J. Celsa, 2019, Catalogue of the amphibians of Venezuela: Illustrated and annotated species list, distribution, and conservation, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 180) 13 (1), pp. 1-198 : 91

Leptodactylus fragilis (Brocchi 1877)

Type: MNHNP 6316 .

Type locality: “Tehuantepec,” Oaxaca, Mexico .

Distribution: Regions 3, 4, 6. Widely distributed: southern USA (Texas), Central America to northern Colombia and Venezuela. In Venezuela, lowlands north of Orinoco River.

Remarks: Probably a complex of species (CBA, unpub. data). Nomenclatorical history in Heyer and Dubois (1992) and Heyer (2002). In Leptodactylus fuscus species group of De Sá et al. (2014).

Selected References: Staton and Dixon (1977); Heyer (1978, 2002); Ramo and Busto (1989, 1990); Dubois and Heyer (1992); Tárano (2010); De Sá et al. (2014).