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| Sinaloa | 11 |71.9-81.3 |24.0-27.3 |70.5-78.1| 15.0-17.3 |
| | | (77.3) | (25.7) | (73.4) | (16.1) |
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All specimens from Michoacan and Colima more closely approach _Diaglena
reticulata_ than _D. spatulata_. The acquisition of additional
specimens, especially from the area between Sinaloa and Colima and from
Guerrero, is necessary to determine the relationships among the various
populations known at present. Both species of _Diaglena_ inhabit
tropical scrub forest; none has been found in the more humid and
tropical semi-deciduous forests. Humid forest replaces the scrub forest
in the lowlands of southern Nayarit and northern Jalisco; possibly this
forest acts as a barrier to the distribution of _Diaglena_ and thus
serves as a divider between the ranges of _D. spatulata_ to the north
and _D. reticulata_ to the south.
~Pternohyla fodiens~ Boulenger
_Pternohyla fodiens_ Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser.
5, 10:326, 1882.--Presidio, Sinaloa, Mexico.
Nueva Italia (2).
These specimens (JRD 5994-5) were found on the road near Nueva Italia
during a heavy rain on the night of August 25, 1960, by James R. Dixon.
Both are females having snout-vent lengths of 64.0 and 59.0 mm. They are
typical of the species as it is known from Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco,
and Colima.
These specimens constitute the southernmost record for the species,
which ranges in semi-arid habitats from southern Arizona southward along
the Pacific lowlands of Mexico to Colima and inland on the Mexican
Plateau in Jalisco.
~Phyllomedusa dacnicolor~ Cope
_Phyllomedusa dacnicolor_ Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci.
Philadelphia, 16:181, September 30, 1864.--Colima, Colima,
Mexico. Funkhouser, Occ. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Stanford
Univ., 5:37, April 1, 1957.
_Agalychnis alcorni_ Taylor, Copeia, no. 2:31, June 2,
1952.--Rio Tepalcatepec, 17 miles south of Apatzingan,
Michoacan, Mexico.
_Agalychnis dacnicolor_, Duellman, Herpetologica, 13:29,
March 30, 1957.
_Phyllomedusa alcorni_, Funkhouser, Occ. Pap. Nat. Hist.
Mus. Stanford Univ., 5:30, April 1, 1957.
Aguililla (13); Apatzingan (7); Charapendo; Coahuayana (3);
Coalcoman (54); El Sabino; Huetamo Road (2); La Orilla; La
Placita; Nueva Italia (4); 32 km. E
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