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
These specimens constitute the southernmost record for the species,
which ranges in semi-arid habitats from southern Arizona southward along
the Pacific lowlands of México to Colima and inland on the Mexican
Plateau in Jalisco.
~Phyllomedusa dacnicolor~ Cope
_Phyllomedusa dacnicolor_ Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci.
Philadelphia, 16:181, September 30, 1864.--Colima, Colima,
México. Funkhouser, Occ. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Stanford
Univ., 5:37, April 1, 1957.
_Agalychnis alcorni_ Taylor, Copeia, no. 2:31, June 2,
1952.--Río Tepalcatepec, 17 miles south of Apatzingán,
Michoacán, México.
_Agalychnis dacnicolor_, Duellman, Herpetologica, 13:29,
March 30, 1957.
_Phyllomedusa alcorni_, Funkhouser, Occ. Pap. Nat. Hist.
Mus. Stanford Univ., 5:30, April 1, 1957.
Aguililla (13); Apatzingán (7); Charapendo; Coahuayana (3);
Coalcomán (54); El Sabino; Huetamo Road (2); La Orilla; La
Placita; Nueva Italia (4); 32 km. E of Neuva Italia (2); Río
Cancita, 14 km. E of Apatzingán; Río Tepalcatepec, 27 km. S
of Apatzingán; Salitre de Estopilas (2); Tzitzio (4).
This large tree frog has been found only in the lowlands below elevation
of about 1000 meters, usually in arid tropical scrub forest. Calling
males were heard on rainy nights throughout the rainy season; in nearly
every instance both males and females were found in low trees and
bushes. On summer nights when there had been no rain, adults were found
sitting on bushes in the scrub forest.
At Coalcomán on July 1, 1955, a chorus was heard at midday. About forty
_Phyllomedusa dacnicolor_ were found in one guayava bush at the edge of
a recently dried pond. Individual males were calling; clasping males
were silent. The call is a barking groan. Fifteen individual egg masses
were hanging from branches and leaves in tear-drop fashion. Each egg
mass contained 100 to 350 pale green eggs, located only in the exterior
part of the clear gelatinous mass. Two composite egg masses appeared to
have been made up by egg deposition on the part of three to five females
(Pl. 2, Fig. 2).
As shown by Duellman (1957a), the characters used by Taylor (1952) to
diagnose _Phyllomedusa alcorni_ are sexually dimorphic. Funkhouser
(1957) apparently was unaware of this sexual dimorphism, for she
recognized _P. alcorni_ and _P. dacnicolor_ as distinct species.
~Phrynohyas inflata~ (Taylor)
_Acrodytes inflata_ Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30:64,
June 12, 1944.--La Venta, Guerrero, México.
_Phrynohyas inflata_, Duellman, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ.
Michigan, 96:19, February 1, 1956.
_Phrynohyas corasterias_ Shannon and Humphrey,
Herpetologica, 13:15, March 30, 1957.--4.8 miles east of San
Blas, Nayarit, México.
Barranca de Bejuco.
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