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
[Illustration: PLATE 18
_Ptychohyla ignicolor_ (UMMZ 119603). x 2.]
=Ptychohyla ignicolor= Duellman
_Ptychohyla ignicolor_ Duellman, Uni. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist.,
13:352-353, pl. 25, fig. 1, April 27, 1961 [Holotype.--UMMZ
119603 from 6 kilometers south of Vista Hermosa, Oaxaca,
Mexico; Thomas E. Moore collector].
_Diagnosis._--Diameter of tympanum less than one-half diameter of eye;
internarial region flat; 3-7 vomerine teeth; toes one-half webbed; no
white spot below eye; no lateral white stripe; in life dorsum green;
groin and thighs having bright red flash-colors.
_Description._--The following description is based on UMMZ 119603 from
6 kilometers south of Vista Hermosa, Oaxaca, Mexico (Pl. 18). Adult
male having a snout-vent length of 30.0 mm.; tibia length, 14.6 mm.;
tibia length/snout-vent length, 48.7 per cent; foot length, 12.3 mm.;
head length, 9.2 mm.; head length/snout-vent length, 30.7 per cent;
head width, 9.3 mm.; head width/snout-vent length, 31.0 per cent;
diameter of eye, 3.2 mm.; diameter of tympanum, 1.3 mm.; tympanum/eye,
40.6 per cent. Snout in lateral profile square, and in dorsal profile
rounded; canthus pronounced; loreal region slightly concave; lips
moderately flaring; top of head flat; nostrils protuberant;
internarial distance, 2.8 mm.; internarial region flat; interorbital
distance, 3.3 mm., much broader than width of eyelid, 2.8 mm. A heavy
dermal fold from posterior corner of eye above tympanum to insertion
of forelimb, covering upper edge of tympanum; tympanum elliptical, its
greatest diameter equal to its distance from eye. Forearm moderately
robust having distinct dermal fold on wrist; pollex moderately
enlarged without nuptial spines; second and fourth fingers equal in
length; subarticular tubercles round, none is bifid; discs on fingers
moderate in size, that on third finger slightly larger than tympanum;
no web between first and second fingers; vestige of web between other
fingers. Heels overlap when hind limbs adpressed; tibiotarsal
articulation extends to anterior corner of eye; no tarsal fold; inner
metatarsal tubercle large, flat, and elliptical; outer metatarsal
tubercle near inner one and triangular in shape; subarticular
tubercles round; length of digits from shortest to longest 1-2-5-3-4;
third toe webbed to proximal end of penultimate phalanx; fourth toe
webbed to distal part of antepenultimate phalanx; fifth toe webbed to
middle of penultimate phalanx; discs on toes smaller than on fingers.
Anal opening directed posteriorly at upper edge of thighs; no anal
flap; pair of large tubercles below anal opening; small tubercles
ventral and lateral to these. Skin of dorsum and ventral surfaces of
limbs smooth; that of throat and belly granular. Ventrolateral glands
noticeably thickened, extending from axilla nearly to groin and only
narrowly separated midventrally on chest; skin of anterior part of
chin thickened and glandular.
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