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
_Diagnosis._--Medium-sized frogs, males 22.8-28.4 mm. snout-vent,
females 25.9-32.0 mm. snout-vent; vocal slits in males; digital tips
greatly expanded, more than twice width of digit; first finger shorter
than second; skin of dorsum shagreened to pustular, that of venter
weakly to moderately areolate; toes webbed basally; dorsum light brown
to tan with brown vermiculations; venter white; diameter of tympanum
53.9 to 64.2 per cent that of eye in males, 50.6 to 58.7 per cent in
females.
_Description and variation._--(Fig. 12). Head wider than body; head as
wide or wider than long in males, sometimes longer than wide in females;
snout acuminate in dorsal view, elongate and rounded in lateral profile;
canthus rostralis rounded but distinct; loreal region slightly concave,
sloping abruptly to lip; lips not flared; eyelid about two-thirds
interorbital distance; length of eye less than distance between eye and
nostril; diameter of tympanum 53.9 to 64.2 per cent that of eye in
males, 50.6 to 58.7 per cent in females; tympanum round and distinct in
both sexes; supratympanic fold moderately distinct; choanae within
border of jaws, completely visible from directly below, rounded to
slightly oval; dentigerous processes of prevomers and teeth absent;
tongue free for posterior one-half, generally oval in outline; vocal
slits present in males.
Many scattered pustules on dorsum; flanks areolate; skin of venter
areolate or not (variability may be due to differences in preservation);
ventral disc distinct on chest and lower abdomen; inguinal gland present
or not, when present varying from very large and distinct to poorly
defined; axillary gland absent.
First finger shorter than second; all fingers bearing truncate tips with
pads, each pad having a terminal groove; fingers fringed; fingers three
and four having dilated pads two to three times width of digit;
subarticular tubercles large, conical, rounded, simple; supernumerary
tubercles numerous on thenar surface, none on digits; three palmar
tubercles, outer slightly smaller than largest supernumerary tubercles;
row of tubercles on outer edge of forearm variable, weak to very
distinct; tips of toes wider than digits, rounded to truncate at tips,
each pad having terminal groove; toes having lateral fringes, bases of
toes united by web, web not extending to basal subarticular tubercle;
subarticular tubercles smaller than those of hand, round, conical,
simple; supernumerary tubercles numerous on plantar surfaces, extending
between metatarsal tubercles, present on toes between basal two
subarticular tubercles in some specimens; outer metatarsal tubercle
round, conical, one-half as large as ovoid, non-compressed inner
metatarsal tubercle; tarsal tubercles or folds absent.
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