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Mexican White-lipped Frog
Leptodactylus fragilis (Brocchi, 1877)

Current SSAR Comments:
Much of the older literature about this species refers to this species as Leptodactylus labialis.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
White-jawed Frog (Leptodactylus albilabris: Wright, Anna Allen, and Alex Hazen Wright. 1933. Handbook of frogs and toads. The frogs and toads of the United States and Canada Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, NY. xi+231pp.); White-lipped Frog (Leptodactylus albilabris: Wright, Anna Allen, and Alex Hazen Wright. 1933. Handbook of frogs and toads. The frogs and toads of the United States and Canada Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, NY. xi+231pp.); Mexican White-lipped Frog (Leptodactylus labialis: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
Amphibian Species of the World
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1877 Brocchi, P. Sur quelques batraciens raniformes et bufoniformes de l’Amérique Centrale. [On some raniform and bufoniform batrachians from Central America.] Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris. Series 7. [Bulletin of the Philomathic Society of Paris. Series 7.] 1():175–197

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