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    A Review of the Frogs of the Hyla bistincta Group
    A Review of the Frogs of the Hyla bistincta Group
    A Review of the Frogs of the Hyla bistincta Group
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    A Review of the Frogs of the Hyla bistincta Group

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      A Review of the Frogs of the Hyla bistincta Group - William E. Duellman

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      Title: A Review of the Frogs of the Hyla bistincta Group

      Author: William E. Duellman

      Release Date: June 2, 2010 [EBook #32653]

      Language: English

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      University of Kansas Publications

      Museum of Natural History

      Volume 15, No. 9, pp. 469-491, 4 figs.

      March 2, 1964

      A Review of the Frogs

      Of the Hyla bistincta Group

      BY

      WILLIAM E. DUELLMAN

      University of Kansas

      Lawrence

      1964

      University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History

      Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch,

      Theodore H. Eaton, Jr.

      Volume 15, No. 9, 469-491, 4 figs.

      Published March 2, 1964

      University of Kansas

      Lawrence, Kansas

      PRINTED BY THE STATE PRINTER

      TOPEKA, KANSAS

      1964

      29-8590

      A Review of the Frogs

      Of the Hyla bistincta Group

      BY

      WILLIAM E. DUELLMAN

      CONTENTS

      PAGE

      Introduction 471

      Acknowledgments 471

      The Hyla Bistincta Group 472

      Analysis of Characters 473

      Key to the Species of the Hyla Bistincta Group 474

      Accounts of the Species 475

      Hyla bistincta Cope 475

      Hyla charadricola new species 478

      Hyla robertsorum Taylor 481

      Hyla pachyderma Taylor 485

      Hyla crassa (Brocchi) 486

      Relationships 489

      Literature Cited 491

      INTRODUCTION

      In the mountainous regions of Middle America there are several groups of hylid frogs that inhabit mountain streams. Some of these groups, such as Plectrohyla and Ptychohyla, have been elevated to generic rank, whereas others are retained in the large and complex genus Hyla. In the mountains of México five species of hylids that seem to compose a phyletic unit are herein referred to as the Hyla bistincta group. Since 1955 I have been accumulating specimens of, and data on, this group with the result that all specimens known to me, including the types of all named taxa, have been studied. Detailed observations have been made on the ecology and life histories of three of the species; the other two species are known to me only from preserved specimens.

      Acknowledgments

      For permission to examine specimens in their care I am indebted to Charles M. Bogert, American Museum of Natural History (AMNH); Doris M. Cochran, United States National Museum (USNM); Jean Guibé, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN); Robert F. Inger, Chicago Natural History Museum (CNHM); Hobart M. Smith, University of Illinois Museum of Natural History (UIMNH); Charles F. Walker, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ). (Abbreviations of institutions given above in parentheses are used throughout; the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas is abbreviated KU.)

      For their willing assistance in the field I am grateful to Ann S. Duellman, Dale L. Hoyt, and John Wellman. Permits for collecting in México were generously issued by the late Ing. Luis Macías Arellano, Departamento de la Fauna Silvestre, Dirección General de Caza. The drawings in figures 1 and 3 were executed by Gail Selfridge. This research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF G-9827).

      THE HYLA BISTINCTA GROUP

      The five species comprising the Hyla bistincta group are moderate-sized hylids having rather blunt heads and robust bodies. The fingers

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