A Taxonomic Revision of the Leptodactylid Frog Genus Syrrhophus CopeLynch, John D.
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A Taxonomic Revision of the Leptodactylid Frog Genus Syrrhophus Cope
Lynch, John D.
Frogs; Syrrhophus
_Specimens examined._--(130), MEXICO, _Puebla_: Necaxa, UMMZ 69519-20.
_San Luis Potosi_: 5 km. W Aguismon, LSUMZ 4962-63; along Rio Axtla,
road to Xilitla, UMMZ 105500; Tamazunchale, UIMNH 3199; 6.5 km. N
Tamazunchale, UMMZ 104039; 8 km. N Tamazunchale, UMMZ 119490.
_Veracruz_: Coatepec, 1210 m., FMNH 704966-67; 11 km. SE Coatepec, 850
m., FMNH 70468-70; below Cordoba, FMNH 104588, UIMNH 13321; Cuautlapam,
1000 m., FMNH 106477-80, KU 100364, UIMNH 58200-03, UMMZ 105392; Fortin
de las Flores, UIMNH 13322, 13339; 1.6 km. N Fortin de las Flores, UIMNH
42799-808, UMMZ 105389; 3.2 km. N Fortin de las Flores, UIMNH 26633-35;
4.8 km. N Fortin de las Flores, UIMNH 71967-68; 3.2 km. W Fortin de las
Flores (Barranca Metlac), 910 m., UIMNH 49294-95, UMMZ 115444-46,
118221, 119893 (2); Huatusco, KU 100363; Jalapa, 1400 m., FMNH 70440,
70443-51, 70454-65; 16 km. NE Jalapa, 1300 m., FMNH 70452-53; 8 km. E
Jalapa, UIMNH 13338; 9.5 km. S Jalapa, UMMZ 122083 (2); Mirador, KU
23967; Paraja Nuevo, El Suchil, UMMZ 85490 (7), 85491 (2), 90315; La
Passa, UIMNH 49293, 49297; 1 km. E Plan del Rio, 240 m., UMMZ 102067
(2); Potrero Viejo, FMNH 104583, 104586, 105326-27, KU 26789, 100357-62,
UIMNH 13323, 13340-43; USNM 32402 (lectotype), 32403-04, 32406-09; 9.6
km. S Santa Rosa, TCWC 12785; 24 km. NE Tezuitlan (Puebla), UMMZ 105388;
Teocelo, FMNH 70437-38, KU 26080, 26790; 3.2 km. N Teocelo, FMNH 70439,
70441-42; 9.6 km. NW Tihuatlan, UIMNH 3684-85; 15 km. ENE Tlacotepec, KU
23966; 26 km. NW Tuxpan, UMMZ 126419.
=Syrrhophus leprus= Cope
_Syrrhophus leprus_ Cope, 1879:268-69 [Holotype.--USNM 10040, from
Santa Efigena, Oaxaca, Mexico, Francis Sumichrast collector].
Kellogg, 1932:124-5, 128. Taylor and Smith, 1945:582. Smith and
Taylor, 1948:50-51. Duellman, 1958:8, pl. 1, Fig. 2; 1960:56-57.
Gorham, 1966:165.
_Syrrhaphus leprus_: Guenther, 1900:217.
_Syrrhophus leprus leprus_: Neill, 1965:85-86.
_Syrrhophus leprus cholorum_ Neill, 1965:85-86 [Holotype.--Wilfred
T. Neill collection 1525, from 3.9 mi. N San Antonio, Toledo
District, British Honduras, collected October 28, 1959, by
R. A. Allen, T. C. Allen, and W. T. Neill].
_Diagnosis._--Medium-sized frogs, males 20.5-26.5 mm. in snout-vent,
females 22.0-29.3 mm. in snout-vent length; vocal slits present in
males; tips of fingers dilated slightly; first finger longer than
second; inner metatarsal tubercle twice size of small, conical outer
metatarsal tubercle; skin of dorsum pustular, that of venter smooth;
snout subacuminate; diameter of tympanum 47.5-62.5 per cent of eye in
males, 38.6-57.9 per cent in females; dorsum yellowish-green with
chocolate brown blotches or spots forming reticulations in most
specimens; venter white to gray; flanks brown, spotted with white or
not; limbs banded; interorbital bar obscured by dorsal pattern.
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