Description of fully developed tadpole (KU 59986): Total length, 13.5
mm.; tail-length, 8.4 mm., 62 per cent of total length. Snout, in dorsal
view, bluntly rounded; in lateral view less bluntly rounded; body
depressed; head flattened; mouth terminal; eye large, its diameter 25
per cent of length of body; nostrils near tip of snout and directed
anteriorly; spiracle sinistral and situated postero-ventrad to eye;
cloaca median. Tail-fin thrice depth of tail-musculature, which extends
beyond posterior end of tail-fin giving sword-tail appearance (Fig. 2).
In life, black stripe on each side of body and on top of head; black
band on anterior part of tail and another on the posterior part; body
and anterior part of tail creamy yellow; dark red band between black
bands on tail. Mouth terminal, small, its width about one-fifth width of
body; fleshy ridge dorsally and ventrally; row of small papillae on
ventral lip; no lateral indentations of lips; upper beak massive,
convex, and finely serrate; lower beak small and mostly concealed behind
upper; no teeth (Fig. 3).
[Illustration: FIG. 3. Mouthparts of larval _Hyla ebraccata_ (KU 59986)
from Toocog, El Petén, Guatemala. × 100.]
=Hyla loquax= Gaige and Stuart
Toocog, 14.
These specimens were found at night when they were calling from low
vegetation in a forest pond. Most of the frogs were several meters away
from the edge of the pond. Although two clasping pairs were found, we
obtained no eggs or tadpoles referable to this species.
=Hyla microcephala martini= Smith
Chinajá, 1; Toocog, 21.
The specimen from Chinajá was calling from a small bush at the edge of a
temporary grassy pond in a clearing in the forest. At Toocog this
species was closely associated with _Hyla ebraccata_; males were calling
from herbaceous vegetation in and around the forest pond. These frogs
were not so abundant in the forest at Toocog as they were around ponds
on the savanna at La Libertad.
=Hyla picta= (Günther)
Toocog, 8.
This small tree frog was calling from herbs in a pond in the forest on
June 30 and July 2. The voice is weak; probably greater numbers of males
were present than are indicated by the few specimens collected, for the
din from the more vociferous species made it impossible to hear _Hyla
picta_ unless one was calling close by.
=Hyla staufferi= Cope
Chinajá, 1.
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