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A Review of the Frogs of the Hyla bistincta Group
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.