| Leptodactylus petersii | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Leptodactylidae |
| Genus: | Leptodactylus |
| Species: | L. petersii |
| Binomial name | |
| Leptodactylus petersii (Steindachner, 1864) | |
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The Peters' thin-toed frog or rana dedilarga de Peters (Leptodactylus petersii) is a frog. It lives in Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname, and Ecuador.
The adult male frog is 26.6–41.1 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 31.2–51.3 mm long. The skin of the frog's back is brown-green or red-brown in color with dark marks. There is a mark in the shape of a triangle on the back. The belly is white in color. The iris of the eye is bronze or red-brown in color with two dots on the lowest part.
Scientists named the frog petersi for the amphibian-studying scientist Dr. Wilhelm Carl Hartwig Peters.
The adult frogs are awake at night and the youngest frogs are awake during the day. This frog lives in Amazonia places. It can also live in places where animals eat grass, forests, and people's gardens. Scientists saw the frog in many protected places.
The male frog's voice sounds like "weet weet weet." The female frog puts her eggs in bodies of water that dry up for part of the year. The tadpoles swim in water.
Scientists from the IUCN say this frog is not in danger of dying out because it lives in a large place. But it is in some danger. Human beings changed the places where the frog lives. Scientists found the dangerous fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on one of these frogs, but they don't know if the disease chytridiomycosis kills many of these frogs.
