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: _Guerrero_: Agua del Obispo, CNHM
123489-90, 126651, 106300, MCZ 29639, UIMNH 25047, 25049, USNM 114551;
Malinaltepec, ZMB 34351, 34353. _Oaxaca_: 2.5 km. N of La Soledad, KU
58061; San Lucas Camotlan, UIMNH 3201, USNM 123700-1; Vista Hermosa,
KU 64116-7, 64119, 68560 (tadpoles), 71344, 71717-8 (tadpoles), UMMZ
119604; 5 km. S of Yetla, KU 60045 (tadpoles); _7.5 km. S of Yetla_,
KU 64118, 68556-7 (tadpoles), 68559 (tadpoles), 68561 (2 young), 68630
(skeleton), UMMZ 115514-5, 118863 (tadpoles); 9 km. S of Yetla, KU
68558 (tadpoles).
[Illustration: PLATE 15
_Ptychohyla spinipollex_ (KU 58054). x 2.]
=Ptychohyla spinipollex= (Schmidt)
_Hyla euthysanota_, Dunn and Emlen, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci.
Philadelphia, 84:25, March 22, 1932.
_Hyla spinipollex_ Schmidt, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 49:45-46,
May 1, 1936 [Holotype.--MCZ 21300 from the mountains behind
Ceiba, Depto. Atlantidad, Honduras; Raymond E. Stadelman
collector]. Stuart, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan,
69:32-34, figs. 5-6, June 12, 1948; Contr. Lab. Vert. Biol.
Univ. Michigan, 45:22, 52, 54, 57, May, 1950; Proc. Biol. Soc.
Washington, 67:169, August 5, 1954.
_Ptychohyla spinipollex_, Stuart, Contr. Lab. Vert. Biol. Univ.
Michigan, 68:48, November, 1954. Duellman, Univ. Kansas Publ.
Mus. Nat. Hist., 13:351, April 27, 1961.
_Diagnosis._--Rostral keel present; snout in lateral profile rounded
above; eyelid nearly as wide as interorbital region; flanks white with
brown spots; belly spotted; nuptial spines pointed and moderate in
size.
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