UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
Volume 15, No. 7, pp. 297-349, pls. 11-18, 7 figs.
October 18, 1963
A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla
BY
WILLIAM E. DUELLMAN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE 1963
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch, Theodore H. Eaton, Jr.
Volume 15, No. 7, pp. 297-349, pls. 11-18, 7 figs.
Published October 18, 1963
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
PRINTED BY JEAN M. NEIBARGER, STATE PRINTER TOPEKA, KANSAS 1963
[Union Label] 29-6531
A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla
BY WILLIAM E. DUELLMAN
CONTENTS
PAGE
INTRODUCTION 301 Acknowledgments 301 Materials and Methods 302
ANALYSIS OF DATA 303 External Morphology 303 Color and Pattern 307 Osteology 307 Tadpoles 310 Breeding Call 312
SYSTEMATIC ACCOUNTS 314 _Ptychohyla_ Taylor, 1944 314 Key to Adults 315 Key to Tadpoles 315 _Ptychohyla euthysanota_ Group 315 _Ptychohyla euthysanota_ 315 _Ptychohyla euthysanota euthysanota_ (Kellogg) 315 _Ptychohyla euthysanota macrotympanum_ (Tanner) 320 _Ptychohyla leonhardschultzei_ (Ahl) 323 _Ptychohyla spinipollex_ (Schmidt) 327 _Ptychohyla schmidtorum_ Group 331 _Ptychohyla schmidtorum_ 331 _Ptychohyla schmidtorum schmidtorum_ Stuart 331 _Ptychohyla schmidtorum chamulae_ Duellman 334 _Ptychohyla ignicolor_ Duellman 337
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the
- 2: 1960 and have described two new species Duellman
- 3: Alan Hempstead for the use of facilities at Finca Los Alpes
- 4: All species have a blunt snout
- 5: Spinipollex Male 32 41
- 6: Schmidtorum chamulae have a small
- 7: In the other species the xiphisternum is deeply bell shaped
- 8: Schmidtorum chamulae KU 58199
- 9: Leonhardschultzei UMMZ Tape No
- 10: Males lacking nuptial tuberosities
- 11: Interorbital region much wider than eyelid
- 12: Caudal musculature uniformly flecked with brown
- 13: Having distinct dermal fold on wrist
- 14: Two specimens have scattered white flecks on the dorsum
- 15: Musculature extends nearly to tip of tail
- 16: GUATEMALA San Marcos Finca La Paz
- 17: Having a distinct dermal fold on wrist
- 18: Black flecks over most of dorsum
- 19: Scattered brown flecks on caudal musculature and fin
- 20: S of Pueblo Nuevo Solistahuacan
- 21: Interorbital region much broader than eyelid
- 22: Musculature extends nearly to tip of tail
- 23: Melanomma or green Hyla erythromma
- 24: Eyelid nearly as wide as interorbital region
- 25: Whereas the stripe is indistinct in UMMZ 113102 3
- 26: Brown flecks scattered on caudal musculature and caudal fin
- 27: GUATEMALA Alta Verapaz Finca Chichen
- 28: Inner metatarsal tubercle large
- 29: Musculature not extending to tip of tail
- 30: MEXICO Chiapas Finca Irlandia
- 31: Inner metatarsal tubercle large
- 32: Ptychohyla schmidtorum chamulae differs from P
- 33: 2 kilometers south of Rayon Mescalapa
- 34: Inner metatarsal tubercle large
- 35: Musculature not extending to tip of tail
- 36: MEXICO Oaxaca Vista Hermosa
- 37: On the Pacific slopes north of Guerrero
- 38: Ecological interspecific relationships existed
- 39: PHYLOGENY OF PTYCHOHYLA The preceding data on morphology
- 40: Euthysanota group each evolved from separate hylid stocks
- 41: Where the Hyla uranochroa group developed
- 42: Die Amphibien und Reptilien von El Salvador
- 43: Subspeciation in the meadow mouse
- 44: Pleistocene bats from San Josecito Cave
- 45: Natural history of the salamander
- 46: Geographic variation in the harvest mouse
- 47: Raymond Hall and Ticul Alvarez