Middle American Frogs of the Hyla microcephala GroupDuellman, William Edward
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Middle American Frogs of the Hyla microcephala Group
Duellman, William Edward
Frogs -- Central America; Hyla microcephala
| 34.1±0.16 | 32.9±0.17 | 40.1±0.53
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| _H. sartori_
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Guerrero: Tierra Colorada| 29.4-31.8 | 28.9-31.0 | 42.3-52.0
| 30.6±0.13 | 30.0±0.12 | 47.4±0.59
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_Hyla microcephala microcephala_ Cope
_Hyla microcephala_ Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., 23:281, February
11, 1886 [Syntypes.--USNM 13473 (2 specimens, now lost) from
Chiriquí, Panamá; Mr. MacNeil collector]; Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus.,
32:14, 1887. Günther, Biologia-Centrali Americana, Reptilia and
Batrachia, p. 265, June, 1901. Dunn, Occas. Papers Boston Soc.
Nat. Hist., 5:413, October 10, 1931; Occas. Papers Boston Soc.
Nat. Hist., 8:72, June 7, 1933. Stebbins and Hendrickson, Univ.
California Publ. Zool., 56:524, February 17, 1959. Fouquette,
Evolution, 14:484, December 16, 1960. Busack, Copeia, 2:371,
June 21, 1966.
? _Hyla cherrei_ Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1894,
p. 195, 1894 [Holotype.--location unknown, apparently lost;
type-locality: "Alajuela, Costa Rica;" R. Alfaro collector].
Günther, Biologia Centrali-Americana: Reptilia and Batrachia,
p. 264, June, 1901. Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35:846,
July 1, 1952.
_Hyla underwoodi_, Ruthven, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan,
8:55, September 15, 1922. Barbour, Proc. New England Zool. Club,
10:31, March 2, 1928.
_Hyla microcephala microcephala_, Smith, Herpetologica, 7:185,
December 31, 1951. Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 39:23,
November 18, 1958.
_Diagnosis._--Brown lateral stripe narrow, extending from nostril
along canthus, along upper edge of tympanum to groin, bordered above
by narrow white line; pair of dark brown longitudinal lines on dorsum
extending to vent; shanks having dark longitudinal line or flecks, no
transverse bars; interorbital dark mark lacking.
_Description and Variation._--The color pattern is nearly constant. Of
103 males from the Canal Zone, all lack an interorbital dark bar, and
all have a dark longitudinal line on the dorsal surface of the shank
and a narrow lateral dark stripe, bordered above by a narrow white
line, extending to the groin. The longitudinal dark lines on the
dorsum are continuous to the groin in 95 specimens and fragmented in
two specimens. In two others the lines converge and fuse in the
scapular region, and in four specimens auxiliary, fragmented lines are
present dorsolaterally.
In all specimens from southeastern Costa Rica (Golfito, Palmar Sur,
and Villa Neilly) the pattern is constant, except that in about 10 per
cent of the specimens the longitudinal line on the dorsal surface of
the shank is replaced by a row of brown flecks.
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