A Review of the Frogs of the Hyla bistincta GroupDuellman, William Edward
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A Review of the Frogs of the Hyla bistincta Group
Duellman, William Edward
Amphibians -- Central America; Hyla
_Hypsiboas crassus_, Cope, Bull. U. S. Natl. Mus., 32:14,
1887.
_Hyla robustofemora_ Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull.,
26:389-393, figs. 3-4, November 27, 1940 [Holotype.--UIMNH
25050 (formerly EHT-HMS 16314) from Cerro San Felipe, 15
kilometers northeast of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México; Edward H.
Taylor collector]; Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 28:310, November
15, 1942. Smith and Taylor, Bull. U. S. Natl. Mus., 194:86,
June 17, 1948. Taylor, Amer. Mus. Novitates, 1437:20,
December 7, 1949. Smith and Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull.,
33:339, March 20, 1950. Rabb and Mosimann, Occas. Papers Mus.
Zool. Univ. Michigan, 563:7, March 29, 1955.
_Plectrohyla crassa_, Hartweg, Occas. Papers Mus. Zool. Univ.
Michigan, 437:1, June 30, 1941. Stuart, Occas. Papers Mus.
Zool. Univ. Michigan, 455:6, January 5, 1942.
_Diagnosis._--Maximum snout-vent length in males 54 mm.; snout in
dorsal profile round; tarsal fold strong; inner metatarsal tubercle
small and elliptical; outer metatarsal tubercle small, flat, and
indistinct; foot fully webbed; nuptial spines on thumb small; thoracic
fold absent; anal opening at level of middle of femur; dorsum dull
olive-green; belly creamy yellow; chin gray with yellow flecks; flanks
dull olive-green with scattered cream-colored spots; and stripe faint,
cream-color; vocal slits absent.
_Description._--The following description is based on UIMNH 25050 from
Cerro San Felipe, Oaxaca. Adult male having a snout-vent length of
53.7 mm.; tibia length, 26.9 mm., 50.1 per cent of snout-vent length;
foot length (measured from proximal edge of inner metatarsal tubercle
to tip of longest toe), 25.4 mm.; greatest width of head, 17.6 mm.,
32.8 per cent of snout-vent length; head length, 16.0 mm., 29.8 per
cent of snout-vent length; diameter of eye, 5.4 mm.; diameter of
tympanum, 1.5 mm., 27.8 per cent of diameter of eye. Snout short, in
lateral profile bluntly rounded, in dorsal profile broadly round;
canthus absent; loreal region nearly flat; lips thick and not flaring;
nostrils barely protuberant; internarial distance, 3.8 mm.;
interorbital distance, 4.7 mm., somewhat broader than width of eyelid,
3.8 mm. Heavy dermal fold from posterior corner of eye above tympanum
and then to insertion of forearm; tympanum concealed above, its
diameter about equal to its distance from eye. Forearm thick; distinct
fold on wrist; prepollex enlarged bearing patch of small nuptial
spines continuous on side of digit; similar patch on second finger;
subarticular tubercles small and round, none bifid; few supernumerary
tubercles on proximal segments of digits; large, flat palmar tubercle;
fingers long and slender; length of fingers from shortest to longest,
1-2-4-3; discs moderately large; rudimentary web between second and
third fingers and between third and fourth. Legs thick; heels overlap
by about one-fourth length of shank when hindlimbs adpressed;
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