A New Species of Frog (Genus Tomodactylus) from Western México — John Shaqi
A New Species of Frog (Genus Tomodactylus) from Western MéxicoWebb, Robert G. (Robert Gravem)
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A New Species of Frog (Genus Tomodactylus) from Western México
Webb, Robert G. (Robert Gravem)
Frogs
_Description of holotype._--Adult male; snout-vent length,
31.5 (measurements are in millimeters and were taken by means
of dial calipers reading to one tenth of a millimeter); width
of head, 11.2; length of head, 10.3; horizontal diameter of
eye, 3.1, and of tympanum, 1.2; distance from eye to nostril,
3.8; internarial width, 2.9; interorbital width, 4.1; width
of eyelid, 2.5; lumbar gland (left side), 7.0 x 2.6; distance
from axilla to groin, 15.2; tibial length, 12.7; length of
foot, 13.1.
Head slightly wider than body; tip of snout rounded, slightly
truncate; canthus rounded; tympanum small, less than one half
diameter of eye; tympanum having posterior margin
ill-defined, separated from eye by distance about equal to
diameter of tympanum; diameter of eye slightly less than
distance from eye to nostril; width of eyelid about two
thirds interorbital width; paratoid gland indistinct; lumbar
glands high, separated from insertion of leg by about one
millimeter; back and sides of body having low, scarcely
elevated pustules; top of head, limbs and venter smooth; few
low, whitish pustules below and behind tympanum, and low on
sides of body; posterior surface of thighs and anal region
pustulate; one pair of whitish postanal spots; ventral disc
attached near insertion of legs, lacking conspicuous
transverse fold; skin loose on throat, chest and abdomen.
Digits not webbed; tips of two outer fingers truncate, having
terminal transverse grooves, about twice width of narrowest
part of digit; digits of first and second fingers slightly
expanded; fingers from shortest to longest, 1-2-4-3, first
only slightly shorter than second; three palmar tubercles;
inner palmar tubercle about one third size of large median
tubercle; outer tubercle about one tenth size of large median
tubercle; four supernumerary palmar tubercles; tips of toes
slightly wider than narrowest part of digits; toes from
shortest to longest, 1-2-5-3-4, second only slightly shorter
than fifth; inner metatarsal tubercle about four times size
of small outer metatarsal tubercle; supernumerary tubercles
on foot small; no tarsal fold; heels touching when tibiae
adpressed to thighs; tibiotarsal articulation reaching eye
when leg adpressed to side of body.
Contrasting marbled pattern on back and top of head;
contrasting, mostly barred, pattern on limbs; ventral
surfaces whitish, lacking dark marks, but having minute dark
peppering; marbling of dorsal surfaces blackish and whitish
in preservative.
Vomerine teeth lacking; internal choanae lateral, partly
concealed by maxillaries; tongue smooth, elongate, shallowly
notched distally, free for about half its length; vocal sac
median; internal vocal slits large and near angle of jaw.
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