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 58054 from
Finca Los Alpes, Depto. Alta Verapaz, Guatemala (Pl. 15). Adult male
having a snout-vent length of 37.7 mm.; tibia length, 18.2 mm.; tibia
length/snout-vent length, 48.2 per cent; foot length, 15.8 mm.; head
length, 11.7 mm.; head length/snout-vent length, 31.0 per cent; head
width, 11.7 mm.; head width/snout-vent length, 31.0 per cent; diameter
of eye, 3.6 mm.; diameter of tympanum, 1.9 mm.; tympanum/eye, 52.7 per
cent. Snout in lateral profile nearly square, slightly rounded above,
and in dorsal profile rounded with a pointed tip resulting from
vertical rostral keel; canthus pronounced; loreal region barely
concave; lips thick, rounded, and barely flaring; nostrils
protuberant; internarial distance, 3.0 mm.; top of head flat;
interorbital distance, 3.7 mm., about equal to width of eyelid, 3.6
mm. A heavy dermal fold from posterior corner of eye above tympanum to
point above insertion of forearm, covering upper edge of tympanum;
tympanum round, its diameter equal to its distance from eye. Forearm
moderately robust, having faint dermal fold on wrist; row of low,
rounded tubercles along ventrolateral edge of forearm; pollex only
slightly enlarged, bearing triangular patch of moderate-sized,
pointed, horn-covered spines (38 on right, 43 on left); second finger
noticeably shorter than fourth; subarticular tubercles round, distal
one on fourth finger bifid; discs of fingers of moderate size, that of
third finger slightly smaller than diameter of tympanum; vestigial web
between first and second fingers; other fingers one-third webbed.
Heels broadly overlapping when hind limbs adpressed; tibiotarsal
articulation reaches to middle of eye; distinct, but low, tarsal fold
extending length of tarsus; inner metatarsal tubercle elevated, flat,
and elliptical; outer metatarsal tubercle small and round, near base
of fourth toe; row of low indistinct tubercles from heel to base of
fifth toe; subarticular tubercles round; length of toes from shortest
to longest 1-2-3-5-4, the 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 slightly smaller than those on
fingers. Anal opening near upper edge of thighs; opening bordered
laterally by moderately heavy dermal folds and ventrolaterally by
tubercles. Skin of dorsum and ventral surfaces of forelimbs and shanks
smooth; that of throat, belly, and ventral surfaces of thighs
granular. Ventrolateral glands barely evident. Tongue ovoid, barely
notched behind and slightly free posteriorly; vomerine teeth 2-3,
situated on V-shaped elevations between round inner nares; openings
to vocal sac large, one situated along inner posterior edge of each
mandibular ramus.
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