Leptodactylus labialis Cope's White-Lipped Frog Cope, 1877 Class: Amphibia Order: Anura Family: Leptodactylidae Subfamily: Leptodactylinae

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References

• Villa, J., Wilson, L.D., & J.D. Johnson 1988 Middle American Herpetology. Univ. of Missouri Press, 131 pp.
• Frank, N., & E. Ramus 1996 A Complete Guide to Scientific and Common Names of Reptiles and Amphibians of the World. NG Publishing, 337 pp

Other Available References from Amphibian Species of the World

• Cystignathus labialis Cope, 1877, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 17: 90. Syntypes: USNM 31300-31305. Type locality: "It is probably a part of Sumichrast's Mexican collection" made chiefly in southeastern Mexico, Veracruz, Oaxaca, and Chiapas; restricted by Smith and Taylor, 1950, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33: 350, to Potrero, Veracruz; rendered as vicinity of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico, by XXXX.
• Cystignathus fragilis Brocchi, 1877, Bull. Soc. Philomath. Paris, (7) 1: 182. Holotype: MNHNP 6316, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 30. Type locality: "Tehuantepec (Mexique)". Synonymy by Heyer, 1971, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 104.1-3; Dubois and Heyer, 1992, Copeia, 1992: 584 585.
• Leptodactylus fragilis--Brocchi, 1881, Miss. Sci. mex. Am. Centr., 3: 19.
• Leptodactylus labialis--Brocchi, 1881, Miss. Sci. Mex. Am. Centr., 3: 20; Dubois and Heyer, 1992, Copeia, 1992: 584-585.
• Leptodactylus mystaceus labialis--Shreve, 1957, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 116: 246.

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