A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus PtychohylaDuellman, William Edward
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A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla
Duellman, William Edward
Amphibians -- Central America; Amphibians -- Mexico; Ptychohyla
_Ptychohyla bogerti_ Taylor, Amer. Mus. Novitates, 1437:13-16,
fig. 5, December 7, 1949 [Holotype.--AMNH 51847 from Rio
Grande, Oaxaca, Mexico; Thomas MacDougall collector]. Stuart,
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 67:169, August 5, 1954.
_Ptychohyla euthysanota_, Duellman, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat.
Hist., 13:351, April 27, 1961.
_Diagnosis._--Dorsum tan to reddish brown; venter white; rarely
flecked with brown or black; a white stripe on upper lip, on flank,
and usually above anus.
_Description._--The following description is based on KU 58008 from
Finca La Paz, Depto. San Marcos, Guatemala (Pl. 12). Adult male having
a snout-vent length of 35.0 mm.; tibia length, 16.5 mm.; tibia
length/snout-vent length, 47.1 per cent; foot length, 14.2 mm.; head
length, 11.0 mm.; head length/snout-vent length, 31.4 per cent; head
width, 10.7 mm.; head width/snout-vent length, 30.6 per cent; diameter
of eye, 3.3 mm.; diameter of tympanum, 1.8 mm.; tympanum/eye, 54.5 per
cent. Snout in lateral profile nearly square, slightly rounded above,
and in dorsal profile bluntly rounded; canthus pronounced; loreal
region moderately concave; lips thick, rounded, and slightly flaring;
nostrils protuberant; internarial distance, 3.0 mm.; top of head flat;
interorbital distance, 4.1 mm., and approximately a third broader than
width of eyelid, 2.9 mm. Moderately heavy dermal fold from posterior
corner of eye above tympanum to point above insertion of forelimb,
covering upper edge of tympanum; tympanum round, its diameter slightly
more than its distance from eye. Forearm moderately robust, having
distinct dermal fold on wrist; dermal fold, but no row of tubercles
along ventrolateral surface of forearm; pollex only slightly enlarged,
bearing triangular shaped patch of small horn-covered spines (128 on
right, 134 on left); second and fourth fingers equal in length;
subarticular tubercles round, distal one on fourth finger bifid; discs
moderate in size, that of third finger equal to diameter of tympanum;
no web between first and second fingers; other fingers one-third
webbed. Heels broadly overlap when hind limbs adpressed; tibiotarsal
articulation reaches to middle of eye; low rounded tarsal fold; inner
metatarsal tubercle large, elliptical, and flat; outer metatarsal
tubercle small and round; low dermal fold from heel to disc of fifth
toe; subarticular tubercles round; length of digits from shortest to
longest 1-2-5-3-4; third and fifth toes webbed to base of disc; fourth
toe webbed to proximal end of penultimate phalanx; thin dermal fold
from inner metatarsal tubercle to disc of first toe; disc smaller than
on fingers. Anal opening at the level of the upper edge of thighs;
anal flap short; anal opening bordered above by thin transverse dermal
fold and laterally by heavy dermal fold. Skin of dorsum and ventral
surfaces of forelimbs and shanks smooth; that of throat, belly, and
ventral surfaces of thighs granular.
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