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
[Illustration: PLATE 13
_Ptychohyla euthysanota macrotympanum_ (KU 58049). x 2.]
=Ptychohyla euthysanota macrotympanum= (Tanner)
_Hyla macrotympanum_ Tanner, Great Basin Nat., 17:52-53, July 31,
1957 [Holotype.--AMNH 62141 (formerly BYU 13752) from 10 miles
east of Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas, Mexico; Robert Bohlman
collector].
_Ptychohyla macrotympanum_, Duellman, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat.
Hist., 13:351, April 27, 1961.
_Diagnosis._--Dorsum usually pale tan; venter white with scattered
brown or black flecks; a thin white stripe on upper lip and another
above anal opening; no distinct white stripe on flanks.
_Description._--The following description is based on KU 58049 from
Linda Vista, Chiapas, Mexico (Pl. 13). Adult male having a snout-vent
length of 38.0 mm.; tibia length, 19.5 mm.; tibia length/snout-vent
length, 51.3 per cent; foot length, 15.7 mm.; head length, 11.8 mm.;
head length/snout-vent length, 31.1 per cent; head width, 11.7 mm.;
head width/snout-vent length, 30.8 per cent; diameter of eye, 3.8 mm.;
diameter of tympanum, 2.1 mm.; tympanum/eye, 55.2 per cent. Snout in
lateral profile nearly square, slightly rounded above, and in dorsal
profile bluntly rounded; canthus pronounced; loreal region concave;
lips thick, rounded, and slightly flaring; nostrils protuberant;
internarial distance, 3.1 mm.; top of head flat; interorbital
distance, 3.8 mm., and approximately a fourth broader than width of
eyelid, 3.1 mm. A 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 equal to its
distance from eye. Forearm moderately robust, having a distinct dermal
fold on wrist; dermal fold, but no row of tubercles along
ventrolateral surface of forearm; pollex only slightly enlarged,
bearing triangular patch of small horn covered spines (94 on right,
100 on left); fourth finger slightly longer than second; subarticular
tubercles round, none bifid; discs moderate in size, that of third
finger equal to diameter of tympanum; vestige of 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; weak tarsal fold on distal two-thirds of tarsus; inner
metatarsal tubercle large, elliptical, and flat; outer metatarsal
tubercle small and round; no 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 toe webbed to base of disc; fifth toe webbed
to middle of penultimate phalanx; fourth toe webbed to proximal end of
penultimate phalanx; no fold of skin from inner metatarsal tubercle to
base of disc on first toe; discs much smaller than on fingers. Anal
opening near upper edge of thighs; short anal flap bordered above by
thin dermal fold; small tubercles and heavy dermal fold lateral to
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