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
_leprus_ group: digital pads not or only slightly expanded, rounded
in outline; first finger longer or shorter than second; snout
acuminate or subacuminate, not rounded; outer metatarsal tubercle
conical; digits lacking distinct lateral fringes.
content: _cystignathoides_, _leprus_ and _rubrimaculatus_.
_longipes_ group: digital pads widely expanded, triangular in outline;
first finger shorter than second; snout acuminate; outer metatarsal
tubercle not conical; digits bearing lateral fringes.
content: _dennisi_ and _longipes_.
_marnockii_ group: digital pads expanded, rounded to truncate in
outline; first finger equal in length to second or slightly shorter;
snout rounded; outer metatarsal tubercle not conical; digits lacking
lateral fringes; generally stout-bodied frogs.
content: _guttilatus_, _marnockii_, and _verrucipes_.
_modestus_ group: digital pads expanded, truncate in outline; first and
second fingers subequal in length, first usually slightly shorter
than second; snout subacuminate; inner metatarsal tubercle twice as
large (or larger) as outer metatarsal tubercle; digits bearing
poorly-defined lateral fringes.
content: _interorbitalis_, _modestus_, _nivocolimae_, _pallidus_,
and _teretistes_.
_pipilans_ group: digital pads not or only slightly expanded,
truncate in outline; first finger equal in length to second; snout
subacuminate; metatarsal tubercles subequal in size; digits lacking
lateral fringes.
content: _pipilans_.
_Acknowledgments._--For loan of specimens, I am indebted to Richard J.
Baldauf, Texas A & M University (TCWC); W. Frank Blair, University of
Texas (TNHC); Charles M. Bogert and Richard G. Zweifel, American Museum
of Natural History (AMNH); James E. Boehlke and Edmond V. Malnate,
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); Robert F. Inger and
Hymen Marx, Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH); Ernest A. Liner
(EAL); Michael Ovchynnyk, Michigan State University collection (MSU);
James A. Peters, United States National Museum (USNM); Douglas A.
Rossman, Louisiana State University Museum of Zoology (LSUMZ); Hobart M.
Smith, University of Illinois Museum of Natural History (UIMNH); Charles
F. Walker, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ); and John W.
Wright, Los Angeles County Museum (LACM). Specimens in the collection at
the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History are identified as KU.
The abbreviations EHT-HMS refer to the Edward H. Taylor-Hobart M. Smith
collection and FAS to the Frederick A. Shannon collection. The
type-specimens from these collections are now in the Field Museum of
Natural History and the University of Illinois Museum of Natural
History.
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