Some Reptiles and Amphibians from KoreaJones, J. Knox
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Some Reptiles and Amphibians from Korea
Jones, J. Knox
Amphibians -- Korea; Reptiles -- Korea
The call is a quiet low trill or series of staccato whistles rising
slightly at the beginning; a short peeplike note also was heard. The
specimens from Cheju Do, which are generally smaller than those
collected on the mainland in spring, were taken on September 6 in a
small stream that had large volcanic rocks in many places and that was
flanked by thick brush and small trees. The earliest and latest dates on
which _B. orientalis_ was collected were April 21 and September 6,
respectively.
In the breeding season, males are distinguished from females by the
large blackish (probably brownish earlier in season) areas on the
anteroventral surface of the antebrachium, the metacarpal tubercle, and
the inner surface of the first finger (sometimes also the second and
third). Also, males have conspicuous black-tipped tubercles on the back
(usually absent in females) that extend onto the limbs (usually smooth
in females, at least laterally). Field observations by one of us (Byers)
suggested that the dorsal pattern of males had greater contrast than
that of females and that the venter was brighter reddish. Eight females
from Tangjonggok averaged 47.9 (43-51) in snout-vent length, whereas 24
males from there averaged 50.0 (46-55), indicating little, if any, size
difference between the sexes.
Okada (1931:29) recorded variation in color of live Korean individuals
(green or brown dorsally and pale yellow or red ventrally) and variation
in extent of black markings on the belly (_op. cit._:fig. 12). The
specimens from Cheju Do (28, 32, 32, 32, 37 and 46 in snout-vent length)
have less black ventrally than specimens from the mainland.
=Bufo bufo gargarizans= Cantor
_Bufo gargarizans_ Cantor, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, 9:483,
August, 1842 (type locality, island of Chusan, China).
_Bufo bufo gargarizans_, Stejneger, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 58:59,
July 22, 1907.
_Specimens examined_ (10).--Central National Forest, near
Pup´yong-ni, 1 (KU); 5 mi. NW Choksong, near Imjin River, 1 (KU); 5
mi. E Seoul, 1 (KU); 6 mi. E Seoul, 4 (KU), 2 (UMMZ); 1 mi. S
Yami-ri, 1 (KU).
_Description (nine females)._--Dorsal surface brownish, having
indistinct pale areas, some of which tend to form longitudinal
stripes that extend posteriorly from parotoid glands; blackish
mark, usually on lateral part of parotoid, having short spurs
directed posteriorly and ventrally; edge of upper jaw and warts on
dorsal surface becoming blackish with increasing size; small,
conspicuous group of warts near angle of jaw below parotoid;
middorsal warts tending, at level of posterior edge of parotoids, to
form a V that has its apex between the parotoids; ventral surface
pale yellowish, sometimes having well-defined blackish marks;
granular underparts of large specimens having small blackish
tubercles.
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