FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   51   52   53   >>  
pply equally to each. _Cranial Osteology._--The skull of _Hyla staufferi_ is flat and longer than wide. The premaxillary is small and bears 9 to 13 teeth (mean for 5 specimens, 11.3). The alary process of the premaxillary is small, concave posteriorly and vertical. Ventrally, the premaxillary is united to the prevomers by partially ossified cartilage. The maxillary is slender and usually bears 49 to 70 teeth (mean for 5 specimens, 60.7). The pars facialis of the maxillary is convex and less than twice the height of the pars dentalis. The nasal is large, rounded anteriorly, and pointed posteriorly in dorsal view. The nasal comprises about 40 per cent of the total length of the skull. Anteromedially the two nasals converge; posteriorly they overlap the sphenethmoid. The nasals lack a concavity in the midlateral surface. Dorsally, the sphenethmoid is wider than long, roughly pentagonal in shape; the frontoparietal is elongate, narrow, and smooth, with a small supraorbital process anteriorly. The frontoparietal fontanelle is narrow anteriorly and wide posteriorly. TABLE 7.--Geographic Variation in Size and Color in Males of _Hyla staufferi_. (Means in parentheses below observed ranges.) ================================================================= | | |Complete dorsal| | |Snout-vent | stripes |Barred shanks Locality | N |length (mm.)| (per cent) | (per cent) ---------------+-----+------------+---------------+-------------- Veracruz | 47 | 23.0-27.3 | 0.0 | 100 | | (25.4) | | | | | | Campeche | 20 | 24.6-27.5 | 0.0 | 100 | | (25.5) | | | | | | Oaxaca | 75 | 24.0-28.7 | 9.3 | 100 | | (26.4) | | | | | | Chiapas | 20 | 23.2-27.8 | 10.0 | 100 | | (25.5) | | | | | | Guatemala | 22 | 25.0-29.0 | 10.9 | 100 | | (26.9) | | | | | | El Salvador | 21 | 24.7-28.6
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   51   52   53   >>  



Top keywords:

posteriorly

 

premaxillary

 

anteriorly

 

frontoparietal

 

sphenethmoid

 

narrow

 

nasals

 

length

 

dorsal

 

maxillary


staufferi

 

specimens

 
process
 

parentheses

 

smooth

 
elongate
 

supraorbital

 

fontanelle

 

Variation

 
Salvador

Geographic

 

Guatemala

 

Veracruz

 

Campeche

 
Chiapas
 

Locality

 

Complete

 
ranges
 

Oaxaca

 

shanks


Barred

 

stripes

 
observed
 

partially

 

ossified

 

prevomers

 

united

 
cartilage
 
slender
 

facialis


Ventrally

 

vertical

 

Cranial

 

Osteology

 

equally

 

longer

 

concave

 
convex
 

concavity

 

overlap