Descriptions of New Hylid Frogs From Mexico and Central AmericaDuellman, William Edward
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Descriptions of New Hylid Frogs From Mexico and Central America
Duellman, William Edward
Frogs -- Central America; Frogs -- Mexico; Hylidae
_Description of holotype._--Female having a snout-vent length of 29.3
mm.; tibia length 16.2 mm., 55.3 per cent of snout-vent length; foot
length (measured from proximal edge of inner metatarsal tubercle to tip
of longest toe) 14.1 mm., 48.1 per cent of snout-vent length; head
length 10.0 mm., 34.1 per cent of snout-vent length; head width 10.3
mm., 35.2 per cent of snout-vent length. Snout in lateral profile
truncate, slightly inclined posteroventrally, in dorsal profile narrow
but truncate; canthus angular; loreal region barely concave; lips thick,
barely flared. Snout long; distance from anterior corner of eye to
nostril equal to diameter of eye; nostrils slightly protuberant,
directed laterally; internarial distance, 2.6 mm.; internarial area
slightly depressed; top of head slightly convex; interorbital distance
3.2 mm., 31.1 per cent of width of head; width at eyelid 2.6 mm.; 24.3
per cent of width of head. Diameter of eye 3.0 mm.; thin dermal fold
extending posteriorly from posterior corner of eye, above tympanum, to
point above insertion of arm. Tympanum distinct, its diameter half that
of eye.
Axillary membrane absent; arms slender; thin scalloped dermal fold on
ventrolateral edge of forearm; thin dermal fold on wrist; fingers long,
tapering; length of fingers from shortest to longest, 1-2-4-3; discs
small, only slightly wider than digits; subarticular tubercles large;
distal tubercle on third finger broad, flat; distal tubercle on fourth
finger strongly bifid; supernumerary tubercles large, round, closely
spaced irregularly on proximal segments of digits; prepollex moderately
enlarged. Web lacking between first and second fingers, vestigial
between second and third fingers, extending from middle of
antepenultimate phalanx of third to base of penultimate phalanx of
fourth. Heels overlap by about one-third length of shank when hind limbs
adpressed; tibiotarsal articulation extends to anterior edge of eye;
thin transverse dermal fold on heel; scalloped dermal fold along outer
edge of tarsus; inner metatarsal tubercle large, flat, elliptical,
visible from above; toes long, slender; length of toes from longest to
shortest, 1-2-5-3-4; discs small, barely wider than digits; subarticular
tubercles large, round, subconical; supernumerary tubercles few,
scattered on proximal segments of digits; toes about two-thirds webbed;
webbing extending from middle of penultimate phalanx of first toe to
middle of penultimate phalanx of second, from distal end of penultimate
phalanx of second to base of penultimate of third, from distal end of
penultimate phalanx of third to middle of antepenultimate of fourth to
middle of penultimate of fifth toe.
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