The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michoacán, MéxicoDuellman, William Edward
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The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michoacán, México
Duellman, William Edward
Amphibians -- Mexico -- Michoacán de Ocampo; Reptiles -- Mexico -- Michoacán de Ocampo
This species belongs to a group containing two other populations that
are currently recognized as species--_calcitrans_, known only from
Omiltemi, Guerrero, and _mexicanus_, reported from the mountains of
Oaxaca. Another apparently undescribed member of this group has been
collected in the mountains of northern Puebla. The locality records
indicate that the group inhabits the mountains on the periphery of the
Mexican Plateau, except in western México, where _Eleutherodactylus
occidentalis_ extends to the Pacific lowlands.
~Eleutherodactylus rugulosus vocalis~ Taylor
_Eleutherodactylus vocalis_ Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull.,
26:401, November 27, 1940.--Hacienda El Sabino, Michoacán,
México.
Arteaga (10); El Sabino (8); Salitre de Estopilas (3);
Tumbiscatio (2); Tzitzio (2).
The distributional data on this frog in Michoacán indicate that it
inhabits riparian situations in arroyos and canyons in the lower slopes
of the Cordillera Volcánica and the Sierra de Coalcomán, where it has
been taken at elevations only below 1100 meters.
The dorsal color of living individuals from Arteaga varied from dark
gray and olive brown to tan and reddish brown. The iris was grayish
brown. In contrast, individuals from Agua del Obispo, Guerrero, had pale
golden eyes; specimens from Matías Romero, Oaxaca, had gold eyes heavily
flecked with gray; and individuals from Volcán San Martin, Veracruz, had
bronze eyes.
The use of the trinomial here is arbitrary. Frogs of the
_Eleutherodactylus rugulosus_ group in México (_rugulosus_, _avocalis_,
and _vocalis_) exhibit only slight differences in size, proportions, and
coloration (Duellman, 1958c:6). Furthermore, the named populations are
allopatric. _Eleutherodactylus rugulosus vocalis_, as defined by
Duellman (_loc. cit._), occurs in the foothills of the Sierra Madre
Occidental and associated ranges from central Sinaloa southward into
Michoacán.
~Tomodactylus angustidigitorum~ Taylor
_Tomadactylus angustidigitorum_ Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci.
Bull., 26:494, November 27, 1940.--Quiroga, Michoacán,
México.
Angahuan (6); Apo; Carapan (21); 19 km. S of Carapan (13);
Cerro Tancítaro (12); Cherán; Corupu (14); Cuseño Station
(14); Opopeo (3); Paracho (11); Parícutin (2); Pátzcuaro
(3); Quiroga (59); San Juan de Parangaricutiro (16);
Tancítaro (25); Uruapan (8); Zacapu (11).
This species is indigenous to the pine-oak forests on the southern rim
of the Mexican Plateau, and has been collected at elevations from 1500
to 2500 meters. Males have been observed to call from rocks, rock
fences, clumps of grass, and low bushes; the call is a single "peep." At
San Juan de Parangaricutiro numerous specimens were found in the daytime
beneath adobe bricks and lava on the volcanic ash derived from Volcán
Parícutin; at Paracho individuals were found by day beneath rocks in a
pine forest.
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