Leptodactylus wagneri

{{Short description|Species of frog}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Débora Silvano, Claudia Azevedo-Ramos, Luis A. Coloma, Santiago Ron, Ronald Heyer, Claude Gascon |date=2004 |title=Leptodactylus wagneri |volume=2004 |page=e.T57175A11579804 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T57175A11579804.en |access-date=15 November 2021}}

| taxon = Leptodactylus wagneri

| authority = (Peters, 1862)

| synonyms = Plectromantis wagneri Peters, 1862

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Leptodactylus wagneri (common name: Wagner's white-lipped frog) is a species of frog in the family Leptodactylidae.{{cite web |url=http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leptodactylinae/Leptodactylus/Leptodactylus-wagneri |title=Leptodactylus wagneri (Peters, 1862) |author=Frost, Darrel R. |year=2014 |work=Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 |publisher=American Museum of Natural History |access-date=9 May 2014}} It is found in northern South America (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru).

Leptodactylus wagneri are found in a variety of habitats, usually not far from water: clearings, marshes and swamps, primary forest, secondary forest, terra firme forest, flooded forest, streams, and lakes. Eggs are laid in foam nests in standing water.

Male Leptodactylus wagneri grow to a snout–vent length of {{convert|39|-|61|mm|abbr=on}} and females to {{convert|52|-|82|mm|abbr=on}}.{{cite journal |last1=Heyer |first1=W. R. |year=1994 |title=Variation within the Leptodactylus podicipinus–wagneri complex of frogs (Amphibia: Leptodactylidae) |journal=Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology |volume=546 |issue=546 |pages=1–124 |url=http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/zoology/pdf_hi/sctz-0546.pdf |doi=10.5479/si.00810282.546.i}}

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