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

SSAR 9th Edition 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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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Texas

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.); Middle American White-lipped Frog (Leptodactylus fragilis: Hedges, S. Blair, Robert Powell, Robert W. Henderson, Sarah Hanson, and John C. Murphy. 2019. Definition of the Caribbean Islands biogeographic region, with checklist and recommendations for standardized common names of amphibians and reptiles. Caribbean Herpetology (67):1–53);

Taxon Links:

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

Selected References:
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
1971 Heyer, W. Ronald. Leptodactylus labialis. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (104):1-3
2006 Heyer, Miriiam Muedeking, Heyer, W. Ronald, and de Sa, Rafael O. Leptodactylus fragilis Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (830):1-26
2019 Hedges, S. Blair, Robert Powell, Robert W. Henderson, Sarah Hanson, and John C. Murphy. Definition of the Caribbean Islands biogeographic region, with checklist and recommendations for standardized common names of amphibians and reptiles. Caribbean Herpetology (67):1–53

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