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
=Ptychohyla schmidtorum=
_Diagnosis._--Diameter of tympanum more than half of diameter of eye;
internarial region depressed; toes three-fourths webbed; no red
flash-colors on thighs.
[Illustration: PLATE 16
_Ptychohyla schmidtorum schmidtorum_ (KU 58043). x 2.]
=Ptychohyla schmidtorum schmidtorum= Stuart
_Ptychohyla schmidtorum_ Stuart, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington,
67:169-172, August 5, 1954 [Holotype.--CNHM 27055 from El
Porvenir (17 kilometers air-line west of San Marcos), Depto.
San Marcos, Guatemala; Karl P. Schmidt collector]. Duellman,
Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 13:351, 355, April 27, 1961.
_Diagnosis._--Vomerine teeth 5-11; dorsum dark brown; white spot below
eye; eye red in life.
_Description._--The following description is based on KU 58043 from
Finca La Paz, Depto. San Marcos, Guatemala (Pl. 16). Adult male having
snout-vent length of 31.6 mm.; tibia length, 15.0 mm.; tibia
length/snout-vent length, 47.5 per cent; foot length, 12.5 mm.; head
length, 10.2 mm.; head length/snout-vent length, 32.3 per cent; head
width, 9.9 mm.; head width/snout-vent length, 31.3 per cent; diameter
of eye, 3.4 mm.; diameter of tympanum, 1.8 mm.; tympanum/eye, 52.9 per
cent. Snout in lateral profile nearly square, slightly rounded above
and below, and in dorsal profile bluntly squared; canthus pronounced;
loreal region concave; lips thick, rounded, and flaring; nostrils
protuberant; internarial distance, 2.2 mm.; internarial region
depressed; top of head flat; interorbital distance, 3.4 mm., much
greater than width of eyelid, 2.5 mm. Thin dermal fold from posterior
corner of eye above tympanum to insertion of forelimb, covering upper
edge of tympanum; tympanum round, its diameter equal to its distance
from eye. Forearm slender, lacking distinct dermal fold on wrist; row
of low rounded tubercles along ventrolateral edge of forearm; pollex
slightly enlarged; no nuptial spines; second and fourth fingers about
equal in length; subarticular tubercles small and round, distal one
beneath fourth finger bifid; discs small, that of third finger
noticeably smaller than tympanum; no web between first and second
fingers; vestige of web between other fingers. Heels overlap when hind
limbs adpressed; tibiotarsal articulation reaches to middle of eye; no
tarsal fold; inner metatarsal tubercle large, flat, and elliptical;
outer metatarsal tubercle small, ovoid, slightly more distal than
inner; subarticular tubercles round; length of digits from shortest to
longest 1-2-5-3-4; third and fifth toes webbed to base of discs;
fourth toe webbed to base of penultimate phalanx; discs of toes
smaller than on fingers. Anal opening directed posteriorly at upper
edge of thighs; no anal flap; pair of large tubercles below anal
opening and smaller tubercles farther below. Skin of dorsum and
ventral surfaces of forelimbs and shanks smooth; that of belly and
ventral surfaces of thighs granular.
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