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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Systematic Index -- Class Amphibia -- Order Salientia -- Literature Cited -- Register -- DAS TIERREICH. Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen

Amphibians And Reptiles Of The Rainforests Of Southern El Peten, Guatemala: Editors - E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch, Theodore H. Eaton, Jr.This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-des...

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Excerpt from Anuran Amphibians From a Seasonally Dry Forest in Southeastern Peru and Comparisons of the Anurans Among Sites in the Upper Amazon BasinIn order to gain a better understanding of patterns of distribution of anurans in the Amazon Basin it is desirable to have reports on extensive collections from numerous sites. The purposes of this paper are to: (1) report on a collection of 816 specimens of 55 species of anurans from Balta on the...

Excerpt from Speciation in Frogs of the Hyla Parviceps Group in the Upper Amazon BasinDistribution - The Amazon Basin, coastal lowlands and slopes of southeastern Brasil, northern South America from French Guiana to Colombia, and eastern Panama.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Bo...

Excerpt from A Taxonomic Review of the Southern Andean Marsupial Frogs, Vol. 9: Hylidae: Gastrotheca September 25, 1972In the following accounts the synonymies include all names and combinations thereof applicable to a given taxon. The diag noses are designed to distinguish the species from other Gastrotheca in the southern Andes. Discussions of variation deal principally with coloration, especially in life. An account of geographic and altitu...

Excerpt from A Review of the Neotropical Frogs of the Hyla Bogotensis GroupDistribution - The combined distributions of the six species include the Andes and interandean valleys of western Venezuela and central and southern Colombia, Pacific and Amazonian Slopes of Andes in Ecuador, Amazonian Slopes in Peru, Caribbean slopes in northern Colombia, and Caribbean and Pacific slopes of high lands in Costa Rica and Panama, with an elevational range...

Excerpt from Hylid Frogs of the Genus Scinax Wagler, 1830, in Amazonian Ecuador and PeruWe recognize eight species of Scinax in Amazonian Ecuador and Peru. In each of the following accounts, an abbreviated synonymy precedes a diagnosis, in which characters are listed numerically for easy comparison. For the new taxa, the diagnoses are followed by descriptions of adults, larvae, and advertisement calls. References to descriptions of larvae and ...

Excerpt from New Species of Centrolenid Frogs From Northern PeruIn the Departamento San Martin, a complex series of ridges reaching elevations of more than 1000 m extend eastward and southward from the Cordillera Central of the Andes. These steep, rocky ridges support lower montane rainforest and cloud forest, whereas the intervening valleys, most of which are extensively cultivated, contain remnants of dry tropical forest. Many small streams ...

Excerpt from Phylogeny of Pleurodema (Anura: Leptodactylidae): A Biogeographic ModelThe data for the present paper have been derived from our studies on the morphology of adults and tadpoles, mating calls, breeding behavior, and karyotypes, and from the extensive liter ature On the genus. These data form the basis for a phylogenetic construct that, in combination with information on past and present climatic and vegetation patterns in southern...

Excerpt from A Taxonomic Review of South American Hylid Frogs, Genus PhrynohyasThe localities for each of the specimens examined are given below. The arrangement of the data is as follows: alphabetically by country, state (department or province), and locality, alpha betically by the first letter in the abbreviations for the museum, and numerically after each museum abbreviation. Specimens lacking precise locality data are listed first in the ...

Excerpt from The Status of the Hylid Frog Genus Ololygon and the Recognition of Scinax Wagler, 1830Description of neotype - Adult male, body moderately robust, head as wide as body, longer than wide, head length of svl, head width of svl, snout long, projecting well beyond margin of jaw, subacuminate in dorsal view and in profile, eye - nostril distance slightly greater than horizontal diameter of eye, canthus rostralis rounded, loreal region ...

Excerpt from The Biology of an Equatorial Herpetofauna in Amazonian EcuadorCivilized man has walked on the moon and is carrying out exploratory probes of outer space, yet there remain on earth two nearly unknown ecosystems - the depths of the oceans and the low land tropical rainforest. Technological problems limit the exploration of oceans, but the tropical lowlands? Is the fore boding jungle, to which the exaggerated writings of travelers an...

Excerpt from Some Hylid Frogs From the Guiana Highlands, Northeastern South America: New Species, Distributional Records, and a Generic ReallocationThe University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, beginning with volume 1 in 1946, was discontinued with volume 20 in 1971. Shorter research papers formerly published in the above series are now published as The University of Kansas Museum of Natural History Occasional Papers. The U...

Excerpt from Systematic Status of the Colubrid Snake, Leptodeira Discolor GüntherHypsiglena (in part), Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus no.82, Gunther, Biologia centrali-americana, Reptilia, pp. 137-138, pl? 49, fig. A.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techno...

Excerpt from A Systematic Review of the Marsupial Frogs (Hylidae, Gastrotheca) Of the Andes of EcuadorHolotype. - KU 148532, an adult female, mm, from Isla Pequena, Laguna Cuicocha, Provincia Imbabura, Ecuador, 2890 m, one of a series collected on 31 October 1971 by William E. Duell man and John E. Simmons.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book ...

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Excerpt from The South American Herpetofauna: Its Origin, Evolution, and DispersalThis volume is the result of a symposium of the same title held on 11 - 13 August 1977 in conjunction with the joint annual meetings of the Herpetologists' League and the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles at Lawrence, Kansas. I originally conceived the idea for such a symposium in August 1975 while returning from a 15-month sojourn in South America...