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Rugose Thin-toed Frog, Leptodactylus rugosus

Amphibia · Anura

Leptodactylus rugosusNoble, 1923

Rugose Thin-toed Frog

Photograph by Paul Prior, CC BY, via iNaturalist

A day-active frog reaching 67 mm snout to vent.

Also called Guyana White-lipped Frog.

AmphibiaAnuraLeptodactylidaeLeptodactylus

Grows to
67mm
greatest recorded
Active
Diurnal
Lives
Aquatic, arboreal, terrestrial
Red List
Least Concern
Body length across Leptodactylidae

Longer than 83% of all species in Leptodactylidae anyone has measured.

83% of 193 species are smaller17% larger
13 mmthe whole family, smallest to largest250 mm

The bar is the rank itself: its length is the share of the family this animal exceeds. The chart below is the family’s real spread, on a logarithmic scale because body length here runs from 13 to 250 mm. The solid rule is this animal. Every bar is a count of real species, and nothing on this figure is estimated.

What is known

15 sourced facts, each taken from a named scientific dataset. How to read these.

Cited from a dataset unless a row is marked otherwise.

Standing in the world

Conservation status
Least Concern
Population trend
Stable

as reported by the IUCN Red List

Size

Length snout to vent · greatest recorded
67mm2.75 in

snout-to-vent length, as this source reports for Anura

How it lives

Eats arthropods
Yes

a blank flag in this source means unrecorded, not absent

Eats vertebrates
Unknown
Eats plant matter
Unknown
Active
Diurnal
Where it lives
Aquatic, arboreal, terrestrial
Active in
Wet and warm

Breeding

Reproduction
Oviparous
How the young develop
Through a larval stage
Clutches in a year
1per year

Naming and history

Described by
Noble
Moved to another genus · since it was first described
No
Described in
1923

Keeping one

No enclosure size is given here

Swiss law sets amphibian enclosure sizes family by family, and this family is not among the ones its table names. No figure is given rather than one borrowed from a different kind of animal.

Swiss Tierschutzverordnung (TSchV), SR 455.1, Anhang 2, Tabelle 6 — legally binding minimum enclosure sizes for amphibians, given as multiples of total body length and stated for two animals.

What nobody knows

These are not gaps in our research. No scientific dataset records them for this species — and saying so is information you cannot get from a reference that simply leaves a field out.

  • Still living
  • Length snout to vent · adult female mean
  • Length snout to vent · adult male mean
  • Length snout to vent · adult mean
  • Length nose to tail · greatest recorded
  • Female length · mean, nose to tail
  • Length nose to tail · adult male mean
  • Length nose to tail · adult mean
  • Largest female · snout to vent
  • Largest male · snout to vent
  • Largest female · shell length
  • Largest male · shell length
  • Hatchling length · snout to vent
  • Hatchling length · nose to tail
  • Largest juvenile · snout to vent
  • Largest juvenile · shell length
  • Egg length
  • Egg width
  • Body mass · greatest
  • Body mass · a typical adult
  • Body mass · adult female, mean
  • Body mass at hatching
  • Longest recorded life
  • Preferred body temperature · chosen in a laboratory gradient
  • Body temperature when active · measured in the wild
  • Diet
  • How it hunts
  • Gestation or incubation
  • Average clutch
  • Smallest clutch recorded
  • Largest clutch recorded
  • Mean clutch · smallest reported
  • Mean clutch · largest reported
  • Clutches a year · fewest
  • Clutches a year · most
  • First breeds from · youngest recorded
  • First breeds by · oldest recorded
  • Hatchling length · smallest recorded
  • Hatchling length · largest recorded
  • Age at first breeding · female
  • Mature from · youngest recorded
  • Mature by · oldest recorded
  • Size at maturity · smallest recorded
  • Size at maturity · largest recorded
  • Venomous
  • Fangs
  • Body temp in the wild · lowest mean recorded
  • Body temp in the wild · highest mean recorded
  • Limbs
  • Colour on the back
  • Pattern on the back
  • Pupil
  • Sex decided by
  • Status assessed · the year the Red List last looked
  • Red List criteria
  • Region
  • Biome
  • Active season · shortest recorded
  • Active season · longest recorded
  • Density · lowest recorded
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  • Home range · largest recorded
  • Suborder
  • Infraorder
  • Subspecies
  • Type locality
  • Habitat
  • Mainland or island
  • Lowest it lives · above sea level
  • Highest it lives · above sea level
  • Range size

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This species as JSON · the whole dataset

Cite this page

The Reptile & Amphibian Encyclopedia (2026). Leptodactylus rugosus. Retrieved 2026-09-08, from https://www.allanglescreatures.com/species/leptodactylus-rugosus

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  title  = {Leptodactylus rugosus},
  author = {{The Reptile & Amphibian Encyclopedia}},
  year   = {2026},
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Sources

  1. Oliveira, B.F. et al. (2017). AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Scientific Data 4:170123. Used under CC BY 4.0.
  2. GBIF Secretariat. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Used under CC BY 4.0. Common names aggregated from constituent checklists.
  3. Catalogue of Life (dataset 3LR), used under CC BY.
  4. Moura, M. R. et al. TetrapodTraits: a database of 33,281 tetrapod species. Used under CC BY 4.0. Observed values only; this encyclopedia does not publish its imputed predictions.