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
_Description._--The following description is based on KU 64117 from
Vista Hermosa, Oaxaca, Mexico (Pl. 14). Adult male having a snout-vent
length of 35.6 mm.; tibia length, 18.0 mm.; tibia length/snout-vent
length, 50.5 per cent; foot length, 14.3 mm.; head length, 10.7 mm.;
head length/snout-vent length, 30.1 per cent; head width, 10.6 mm.;
head width/snout-vent length, 29.8 per cent; diameter of eye, 3.6 mm.;
diameter of tympanum, 1.8 mm.; tympanum/eye, 50.0 per cent. Snout in
lateral profile square, not rounded above, and in dorsal profile
rounded with pointed tip resulting from vertical rostral keel; canthus
pronounced; loreal region barely concave; lips thick, rounded, and
barely flaring; nostrils protuberant; internarial distance, 3.2 mm.;
top of head flat; interorbital distance, 3.8 mm., and approximately a
fifth broader than width of eyelid, 3.2 mm. A moderately heavy dermal
fold from posterior corner of eye above tympanum and curving ventrad
to anterior edge of insertion of forelimb, covering upper edge of
tympanum; tympanum round, its diameter equal to its distance from eye.
Forearm moderately robust, having distinct dermal fold on wrist; row
of small, low, rounded tubercles along ventrolateral surface of
forearm; pollex only slightly enlarged, bearing triangular patch of
small horn-covered spines (56 on right, 62 on left); second finger
noticeably shorter than fourth; subarticular tubercles round, distal
ones on third and fourth toes bifid; discs moderate in size, that of
third finger slightly larger than 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; a low rounded tarsal fold on distal half of
tarsus; inner metatarsal tubercle elevated, flat, and elliptical;
outer metatarsal tubercle at base of fourth toe, round; row of low,
sometimes indistinct, tubercles from heel to base of fifth toe;
subarticular tubercles round; length of digits from shortest to
longest 1-2-3-5-4, third and fifth being about equal in length; third
and fifth toes webbed to base of disc; fourth toe webbed to base of
penultimate phalanx; discs of toes much smaller than on fingers. Anal
opening near dorsal surface of thighs; short anal flap; opening
bordered laterally by heavy dermal fold and ventrolaterally by large
tubercles. Skin of dorsum and ventral surfaces of forelimbs and shanks
smooth; that of throat, belly, and ventral surfaces of thighs
granular. Ventrolateral glands moderately developed, reaching axilla
but not to groin and broadly separated midventrally. Tongue cordiform,
shallowly notched behind and barely free posteriorly; vomerine teeth
4-3, situated on transverse elevations between ovoid inner nares;
openings to vocal sac large, one situated along inner posterior edge
of each mandibular ramus.
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