Leptodactylus wagneri

Leptodactylus wagneri (common name: Wagner's white-lipped frog) is a species of frog in the family Leptodactylidae.^[2] It is found in northern South America (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru).^[3][1]

Leptodactylus wagneri
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Leptodactylidae
Genus:	Leptodactylus
Species:	L. wagneri
Binomial name
Leptodactylus wagneri (Peters, 1862)
Synonyms
Plectromantis wagneri Peters, 1862

Leptodactylus wagerni

Description

Male Leptodactylus wagneri grow to a snout–vent length of 39–61 mm (1.5–2.4 in) and females to 52–82 mm (2.0–3.2 in).^[4]

Etymology

Scientists named the frog wagneri for the German scientist and collector Dr. Moritz Wagner.^[3]

Home

This frog lives in many kinds of places, for example marshes, swamps, primary and secondary forest, streams, lakes, and people's gardens. Scientists saw the frog between 200 and 1800 meters above sea level.^[3] Scientists saw the frog in many protected places.^[1]

Reproduction

The female frog lays eggs in a foam nest. The tadpoles develop in water.^[1]

Threats

The IUCN classifies this frog as least concern of extinction. Human beings changed the places where the frog lives, but it is good at living in places that human beings have changed, for example people's gardens.^[1]