A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla — John Shaqi
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
_Specimens examined._--MEXICO: _Chiapas_: 6 km. NE of Chiapa de Corzo,
TCWC 16183; 16 km. E of Chiapa de Corzo, AMNH 62141; Linda Vista, 2
km. NW of Pueblo Nuevo Solistahuacan, KU 58049-51, 59939 (skeleton);
_Rio Hondo, 9.5 km. S of Pueblo Nuevo Solistahuacan_, KU 58047-8,
60046-7, 60048-9 (tadpoles); San Fernando, MZTG 15, 17; Tonina
(ruins), KU 41592.
GUATEMALA: _Huehuetenango_: Jacaltenango, UMMZ 123139 (tadpoles); 0.5
km. E of Jacaltenango, UMMZ 123142-3; 2 km. S of Jacaltenango, UMMZ
123141; 2 km. W of San Pedro Necta, UMMZ 123140 (tadpoles).
[Illustration: PLATE 14
_Ptychohyla leonhardschultzei_ (KU 64117). x 2.]
=Ptychohyla leonhardschultzei= (Ahl)
_Hyla leonhard-schultzei_ Ahl, Zool. Anz., 106:185-186, fig. 1,
April 15, 1934 [Holotype.--ZMB 34353 from Malinaltepec,
Guerrero, Mexico; Leonhard Schultze collector]. Smith and
Taylor, Bull. U. S. Natl. Mus., 184:87, June 17, 1948.
_Hyla godmani_, Ahl, Zool. Anz., 106:186, April 15, 1934.
_Hyla pinorum_ Taylor, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 50:46-48,
pl. 2, fig. 2, April 21, 1937 [Holotype.--UIMNH 25049 from
Agua del Obispo, Guerrero, Mexico; Edward H. Taylor
collector]. Smith and Taylor, Bull. U. S. Natl. Mus., 194:87,
June 17, 1948.
_Ptychohyla adipoventris_ Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull.,
30:41-45, May 15, 1944 [Holotype.--UIMNH 25047 from Agua del
Obispo, Guerrero, Mexico; Edward T. Taylor collector]. Smith
and Taylor, Bull. U. S. Natl. Mus., 194:91, June 17, 1948.
Taylor, Amer. Mus. Novitates, 1437:16, December 7, 1949.
Stuart, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 67:169, August 5, 1954.
_Hyla milleri_ Shannon, Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus., 101:473-477,
figs. 92b, 93a-c, May 17, 1951 [Holotype.--USNM 123700 from
San Lucas Camotlan, Oaxaca, Mexico; Walter S. Miller
collector].
_Ptychohyla leonhard-schultzei_, Duellman, Herpetologica,
16:191-197, figs. 1-3, September 23, 1960; Univ. Kansas Publ.
Mus. Nat. Hist., 13:351, April 27, 1961.
_Diagnosis._--Rostral keel present; snout in lateral profile not
rounded above; interorbital region much broader than eyelid; distal
subarticular tubercle beneath fourth finger bifid or double; no white
stripe on edge of upper lip; flanks white with black spots.
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