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Neill, 1954
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(see
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:
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.
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DIAGNOSIS: A species of
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characterized by: (1) male SVL 38.2, females unknown; (2) two nuptial pads; (3) a row of tubercles along the forearm; (4) an externally evident mental gland in males; (5) thighs patterned with longitudinal bars; (6) dorsum with irregular brown blotches; (7) condition of the m. depressor mandibulae unknown; (8) eggs unknown; (9), (10), (11) tadpoles unknown.
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. loveridgei from
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and
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.
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FIG. 27. Nuptial pad of the
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loveridgei (MCZ 28565). Scale bar =
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DESCRIPTION: The descriptions provided by
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, “
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” [1972]) are adequate, but a few details are worth noting.
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described the nuptial pad of the
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as “male with a brown rugosity on the pollex and inner finger....” Later Rivero (“1971” [1972]) described the second specimen (UPRM. 2854) as having “a smooth nuptial excrescence that extends up to the second finger.” We had access only to the
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MCZ 28565, an adult male (fig. 26). Like
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and
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, it shows two contiguous, discrete nuptial pads covered with minute epidermal projections. One of the pads is on the prepollex, and the other is on the medial-proximal surface of the first digit (
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). The presence of a mental gland that occupies most of the gular region (fig. 28) is another characteristic overlooked by Rivero.
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reported that the
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has the “vomerine odontoids forming a /--\ figure.” Our study of the same specimen suggests that the expression used by Ayarzagüena and Señaris (“1993” [1994]), “slightly S- shaped” is quite appropriate to describe the disposition of each vomerine tooth series. There are 12 teeth on the right and 13 on the left.
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described a slight tarsal fold in the
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; we consider it more appropriate to describe it as a distinct tarsal ridge. Foot-webbing formula for the
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is
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22
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2
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. Some approximate measurements of the
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(the specimen is quite contorted, all in mm) are: SVL 38.2; HL 14.1; HW 13.3; IND 3.1; IO 4.8; EN 3.7; ED 4.2; TD 2.1; TL 22.0; FL 16.4. Note that
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reported the SVL of the same specimen to be 42.0 mm.
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FIG. 28. Ventral view of the gular region of the
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of
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<emphasis id="8BCBEAE0FFF8FFCCFD5DFB8591DDB976" box="[724,943,1095,1119]" italics="true" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">Myersiohyla loveridgei</emphasis>
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(MCZ 28565) showing the
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external aspect of the mental gland. Scale bar =
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REMARKS: The former
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<emphasis id="8BCBEAE0FFF8FFCCFE3DF9539013BB82" box="[436,609,1681,1707]" italics="true" pageId="38" pageNumber="39">Hyla loveridgei</emphasis>
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as described by
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was based on a single male specimen from Cerro Duida, and that description was supplemented (Rivero, “1971” [1972]) with an additional male (SVL reported as
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) from the same locality. Since its description, the species has rarely been mentioned in the literature (see
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;
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). While we still do not know any morphological synapomorphy for
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<emphasis id="8BCBEAE0FFF9FFCDFBEDFEEF92DBBC42" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">Myersiohyla</emphasis>
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, we find
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to be very close morphologically (if not a senior synonym of
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<emphasis id="8BCBEAE0FFF9FFCDFBE6FE9092B5BCB8" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">M. aromatica</emphasis>
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, see below) to various species included in
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<emphasis id="8BCBEAE0FFF9FFCDFD37FEB5913BBCB8" box="[702,841,375,401]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">Myersiohyla</emphasis>
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, and for this reason we pose the testable hypothesis that
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<emphasis id="8BCBEAE0FFF9FFCDFE07FE5E938EBC9F" box="[398,508,412,438]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">loveridgei</emphasis>
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is congeneric. As morphological synapomorphies are discovered for
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<emphasis id="8BCBEAE0FFF9FFCDFF6AFE039302BCF2" box="[227,368,449,475]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">Myersiohyla</emphasis>
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, or tissues of
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<emphasis id="8BCBEAE0FFF9FFCDFDA8FE0390E3BCF2" box="[545,657,449,475]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">loveridgei</emphasis>
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become available, its generic status should be reevaluated.
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We did not study specimens of
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<emphasis id="8BCBEAE0FFF9FFCDFD84FDCE917EBF0F" box="[525,780,524,550]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">Myersiohyla aromatica</emphasis>
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. Based solely on the thorough description provided by Ayarzagüena and Señaris (“1993” [1994]), the only character states differentiating this species from
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seem to be the presence of a distinct tarsal ridge in the latter (Ayarzagüena and Señaris, “1993” [1994]). Since the distinctiveness of this ridge as described earlier in this paper is variable in
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<emphasis id="8BCBEAE0FFF9FFCDFE72FD6090E4BF92" box="[507,662,673,699]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">M. neblinaria</emphasis>
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, the diagnostic value of the character is tentative and needs further evaluation. Furthermore, Ayarzagüena and Señaris (“1993” [1994]) reported 3034 total vomerine teeth, whereas the
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of
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<emphasis id="8BCBEAE0FFF9FFCDFD68FD2F9104BE2F" box="[737,886,748,774]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">M. loveridgei</emphasis>
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has 25. However, the lack of other specimens of
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and potential variation in vomerine tooth counts precludes any conclusion regarding the diagnostic value of vomerine tooth number. Given that the type locality of
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(“Pico Culebra, Mt. Duida,
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”) is approximately
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(straight line) from the type locality of
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(“Cumbre del Tepui Huachamacari, Estado
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,
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”), and that Ayarzagüena and Señaris (“1993” [1994]) did not compare the species, we tentatively consider both species as valid, but suggest that their status deserves further study.
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ECOLOGY
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NATURAL HISTORY: The
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was collected during the day “as it sprang from beneath (or near?) a rock in a treeless, rocky area of Mt. Duida” (
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).
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other known specimen was collected on the mossy stones along a fast-running stream (
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, “1971” [1972]: 185)
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.
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