Leptodactylus wagneri


Leptodactylus wagneri is a species of frog in the family Leptodactylidae. It is found in northern South America.

Description

Male Leptodactylus wagneri grow to a snout–vent length of and females to.

Etymology

Scientists named the frog wagneri for the German scientist and collector Dr. Moritz Wagner.

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. Scientists saw the frog in many protected places.

Reproduction

The female frog lays eggs in a foam nest. The tadpoles develop in water.

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.