Description of tadpole (KU 60006): total length, 24.5 mm.; tail-length,
15.4 mm.; body broader than deep; head moderately flattened; snout
viewed from above blunt; nostrils close to snout and directed dorsally;
eyes of moderate size and directed laterally; mouth directed
anteroventrally; anus median; spiracle ventral, its opening just to left
of midline slightly more than one-half distance from tip of snout to
vent. Tail-fin slightly more than twice as deep as tail musculature,
which curves upward posteriorly; tail-fin narrowly extending to tip of
tail (Fig. 4). Color in life pale gray; in preservative white with
scattered melanophores; tail-fin transparent.
[Illustration: FIG. 4. Tadpole of _Phyllomedusa callidryas taylori_ (KU
60006) from Toocog, El Petén, Guatemala. × 4.]
Upper lip having single row of papillae laterally, but none medially;
lower lip having single row of papillae; no lateral indentation of lips;
two or more rows of papillae at lateral corners of lips; tooth-rows 2/3;
second upper tooth row as long as first, interrupted medially; inner
lower tooth-row as long as upper rows, interrupted medially; second and
third lower rows decreasingly shorter; upper beak moderate in size and
having long lateral projections; lower beak moderate in size; both beaks
finely serrate (Fig. 5).
[Illustration: FIG. 5. Mouthparts of larval _Phyllomedusa callidryas
taylori_ (KU 60006) from Toocog, El Petén, Guatemala. × 30.]
=Smilisca baudini= (Duméril and Bibron)
Chinajá, 9; 20 km. NNW of Chinajá, 42; Río de la Pasión, 1;
Río San Román, 5; Sayaxché; Toocog, 2.
Individuals of this species were found at night sitting on bushes and
small trees in the forest in February and March and again in June and
July. One was in the axil of a leaf of a _Xanthosoma_. In June and July
males were heard nearly every night. The series of specimens from 20
kilometers north-northwest of Chinajá was taken from a breeding
congregation in a shallow muddy pool in the forest. Tadpoles of this
species were in small, often muddy pools in the forest. To my knowledge
_Smilisca baudini_ is the only hylid to breed in these pools at Chinajá,
although perhaps _Smilisca phaeota_ also utilizes them. The only other
amphibian at Chinajá known to breed in the pools is _Bufo valliceps
valliceps_. Although two specimens were on bushes at night at Toocog,
_Smilisca baudini_ was not present at the pond where five other species
of hylids were breeding. Nevertheless, _Smilisca baudini_ was calling
from two ponds on the savannas near La Libertad. All of the specimens
from southern El Petén have yellow or yellowish white flanks and
ventrolateral surfaces.
=Smilisca phaeota cyanosticta= (Smith)
Chinajá, 4; 10 km. NNW of Chinajá, 1.
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