Horváth Géza (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 2. (Budapest 1904)

Méhely, L.: Investigations on Paraguayan Batrachians

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ÜTKEN, 1. c., p. 176. Leiuperus albonotatus STEINDACHNER, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. AYien, 1864. p. 275, tab. XVI. fig. 4—4 c et p. 551. ! Leiuperus ephippifer STEINDACHNER, 1. c., p. 277, tab. XIV, fig. 1 1 e et tab. XVI, fig. 5 (sec. spec. typ.). Paludicola notata P

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, Monatsber. Berl. Ac., 1872, p. 223. Paludicola biligonigera BOULENGER, Cat. Batr. Sal., 1882, p. 234. Paludicola Kröyeri BOULENGER, 1. c., p. 235. Paludicola signifera BOULENGER. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist.. (6) VILI, 1891, p. 454. Two specimens ; 22 mm., the young 17*5 mm. from snout to vent. Description. Body elongate, raniform. Tongue small, elliptic, entire. Vomerine teeth none. Head small, broader than long. Snout short, rounded, with rounded canthus rostralis ; once and one third the width of the eye ; nostril slightly nearer to the eye than the diameter of the latter, much nearer to the tip of the snout. Interorbital space as broad as the upper eyelid. Tympanum conceiled. about one third the width of the eye. Fingers moderate, free, with blunt tips ; first shorter than second, the latter equal with the fourth ; two well separated metacarpal tubercles, the inner narrower. the outer broader and more roundish; palmar surface granulated subarticular tubercles strong, subconical. Toes moderate, with a slight rudiment of Aveb ; third toe slightly longer than fifth ; subarticular tubercles as below the fingers, but slightly feebler ; along the metatarsals distinct tubercles ; two well developed, shovel-shaped, compressed metatarsal tubercles, the inner elliptic, the outer roundish and distinctly broader.* both without a horny edge ; a white tiped conical tarsal tubercle, twice as far from the inner metatarsal tubercle than the latter from the outer one. Tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the anterior corner of the eye. Skin smooth or with some minute flat warts, fine pores and a few very fine sinuous folds above ; a glandular fold extending from behind the eye to groin, an other very fine fold from eye to arm : a slight fold between the inner metatarsal and the tarsal tubercle : a distinct discoidal fold. shoulder ; — all being characters, which are not to be found in Paludicola signifera GIR.. but well agree with those of Paludicola. albifrons SPIX. Pleurodema biligonigera COPE (Proc. Ac. Philad.. 1862, p. 352) also does not belong to the species mentioned above, of which COPE himself says that «it is probably one of G

ÜNTHER'S varieties of Pleurodema Btbronii.t Just because COPE ranges it in the genus Pleurodema — which is furnished with vomerine teeth it seems impossilile to unite it with Paludicola signifera GIR. * In Paludicola gracilis BLGR. (= Gomphobates notatus HENSEL Tnec BEINH. et L

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. ) the outer metatarsal tubercle subconical and much smaller than the inner one (I have HENSEL'S type examined from the Museum of Berlin and two specimen of Paludicola gracilis BLGR. from Bio Grande do Sul through the kindness Mr. BOULENGER'S).