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Leptodactylus savagei

Leptodactylus savagei

(Heyer, 2005)
Rana de Dedos Delgados de Savage

Family: Leptodactylidae
Order: Anura
Class: Amphibia
Phylum / Division: Chordata
Kingdom: Animalia

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Leptodactylus savagei, or Savage´s thin-toed frog, is a species of leptodactylid frog which ranges from eastern Honduras, through Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama to Colombia adjacent to Panama, with a seemingly disjunct population present in the area of Santa Marta in northern Colombia, at elevations from close to the sea level to 660 m.

These frogs are nocturnal and terrestrial.

 This frog has a brown or bronze back, sometimes with reddish brown spots. It has brown spots in the lips and frequently a black stripe over the tympanum. The rear part of the thigh is brownish, however, it can has reddish colours.
The males have an internal vocal sac and one of more corneous spines on the thumps and sometimes on the chest that helps the male to grasp the female during the amplexus.

Males can reach a snout–vent length of 142 mm and females of 146 mm.

Reproductive biology: The male calls from puddles produced and maintained by rain. When a female attends the call, the male grasps her in an axillary amplexus. The couple mixes water, air, semen and secretions to create a foam nest that can contain from 2 to 7 liters of foam. This foam can feed and moisten the tadpoles during the entire metamorphosis which takes about a month. The larvae will eat dead tadpoles of their own species.

Source: Wikipedia, article Leptodactylus savagei. Content adapted from Wikipedia, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Accessed on 16/07/2026.





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Count: 6

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Photography ID: 560181
  Adult

Rancho Quemado
Puntarenas
Costa Rica
07/15/2023
Glauco Oliveira
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Photography ID: 556323
  Adult

Parque Nacional Tortuguero
Limón
Costa Rica
07/10/2023
Glauco Oliveira
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Photography ID: 303736
  Adult

La Fortuna
Alajuela
Costa Rica
12/09/2018
Dauner Alvarado Perez
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Photography ID: 235126
  Adult

Puerto Viejo
Limón
Costa Rica
03/03/2017
Luis Cesar Tejo
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Photography ID: 208931
  Adult

Playa Chiquita
Limón
Costa Rica
06/17/2017
Patricio M. Silfeni


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Record IDDateExact timeCountryProvince / departmentPlaceFilmedPhotographedRecorded vocalObservedHeardWounded or deadNumber of individualsUser or BibliographyDetail
192992015/07/2023Costa RicaPuntarenasRancho QuemadoGlauco Oliveira
191325310/07/2023Costa RicaLimónParque Nacional TortugueroGlauco Oliveira
85356209/12/2018Costa RicaAlajuelaLa FortunaDauner Alvarado Perez
58867417/06/2017Costa RicaLimónPlaya ChiquitaPatricio M. Silfeni
66183903/03/2017Costa RicaLimónAlrededores de Puerto Viejo, Puerto ViejoLuis Cesar Tejo
46023712/09/2012Costa RicaPuntarenasParque Nacional Manuel AntonioHugo Caverzasi
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Please use the following reference when citing this species account.
EcoRegistros. 2026. Leptodactylus savagei – Species account. Accessed from www.ecoregistros.org on 15/09/2026.