Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 3, Volume 4 (Zoology) — John Shaqi
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 3, Volume 4 (Zoology)Various
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Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 3, Volume 4 (Zoology)
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_Description of Type._--Head elongate, depressed, with truncate,
protruding snout; nostril small, a little above and behind the corner
of snout, with groove running down to edge of lip, separated from
its fellow and from orbit by length of eye-slit; lip margin long and
undulating; maxillary and mandibular teeth large; palatine teeth
small, in series running back from each inner nostril and forming a
V-shaped figure; a large well-defined patch of parasphenoid teeth
divided by a slight median groove and posterior notch; tongue large,
long, ovate, with a small posterior notch, free except along the
median line; neck short, somewhat constricted, a well-developed
gular fold; body subfusiform, diminishing toward both extremities;
13 transverse costal grooves between limbs, extending from a short
distance from vertebral line entirely across belly; tail conical
with similar transverse grooves; limbs well-developed, posterior
longer than anterior, toes overlapping when adpressed; digits 4-5,
well-developed, nearly free, with slight terminal disc-like expansion;
third finger longest, first short, second and fourth nearly equal;
first toe short, second and fifth and third and fourth nearly equal;
skin everywhere smooth, but dotted with the mouths of small glands.
Color above smoky seal-brown, lightest on the snout and limbs, dotted,
spotted and blotched with pale straw-yellow on top and sides of head,
neck, body, limbs and tail; largest blotches, on sides of neck, 2 by 4
millimetres. Lower surfaces dirty yellowish white.
Length to anus 72[1] 38 58 66 67 75
Length of tail 64 33 50 52 56 71
Snout to gular fold 20 11 17 18 19 20
Nostril to orbit 4 2½ 3 4 3½ 4
Fore limb 21 13 18 19 20 22
Hind limb 24 15 20 20 22 24
[Footnote 1: Type.]
Sixteen specimens were collected by Mr. Fuchs on South Farallon
Island, February 8, 1899, and four by Mr. L. M. Loomis, July 9, 1896.
They were found under piles of loose stone.
The spots on the type specimen are larger and somewhat more numerous
than on any of the others.
SAN MIGUEL ISLAND.
I know of no records of reptiles or amphibians from San Miguel Island.
Two species of lizards and a _Batrachoseps_ were secured on this
island by Mr. R. H. Beck while collecting for the California Academy
of Sciences.
=1. Batrachoseps pacificus= _Cope_.
PLATE III.
_Hemidactylium pacificum_ COPE, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci.
Phila. 1865, p. 195.
_Batrachoseps pacificus_ COPE, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci.
Phila. 1869, pp. 97, 98; YARROW, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus.
no. 24, 1882, p. 153 [part?]; BOULENGER, Cat. Batrach.
Grad. 1882, p. 59; COPE, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 34,
1889, p. 129 [part?].
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