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Title: Genera of Leptodactylid Frogs in Mexico

Author: John D. Lynch

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Volume 17, No. 11, pp. 503-515, 5 figs.
March 20, 1968

Genera of Leptodactylid Frogs in Mexico

BY

JOHN D. LYNCH

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE
1968

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch,
Frank B. Cross

Volume 17, No. 11, pp. 503-515, 5 figs.
Published March 20, 1968

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY
ROBERT R. (BOB) SANDERS, STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1968

31-9418

Genera of Leptodactylid Frogs in Mexico

BY JOHN D. LYNCH

INTRODUCTION

According to the most recent review of the Mexican amphibian fauna
(Smith and Taylor, 1948), six genera of leptodactylid frogs occur in
Mexico. One other genus, _Pleurodema_, occurs in Lower Central America.
Smith and Taylor recognized one species of _Engystomops_, 28 of
_Eleutherodactylus_, three of _Leptodactylus_, eight of
_Microbatrachylus_, 12 of _Syrrhophus_, and five of _Tomodactylus_.
Subsequent to the publication of their checklist of the Mexican
amphibia (1948), numerous taxonomic changes have been proposed. Many
species of _Eleutherodactylus_ have been added to the fauna, either
through the extension of their recorded ranges into Mexico from
Guatemala or by the recognition of species unknown in 1948, whereas
some nominal species have been synonymized. _Microbatrachylus_ has been
regarded as synonymous with _Eleutherodactylus_ (Lynch, 1965); four
species of _Microbatrachylus_ currently are regarded as valid
(Duellman, 1961, Lynch, 1965). _Syrrhophus_ was revised in part by
Duellman (1958) and Firschein (1954), and a species of _Tomodactylus_