Excerpt from A Review of the Centrolenid Frogs of Ecuador: With Descriptions of New SpeciesWith the exception of Centrolene geckoideum, living centro lenids usually are small, slender-limbed, green frogs. Most preserved examples seem to Offer a limited suite Of characters useful in their classification. The apparent paucity Of characters is in part illusory, for there has been a multiplicity Of names applied to comparatively few species in some areas, furthermore, there has been a limited amount Of well-preserved material with detailed records of color ation of living frogs. In the following paragraphs we discuss those taxonomic characters found to' be useful by us and contemporary investigators (savage, 1967, Savage and Starrett.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 technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.