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Title: Systematic Status of a South American Frog, Allophryne ruthveni Gaige

Author: John D. Lynch
Howard L. Freeman

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Volume 17, No. 10, pp. 493-502, 3 Figs.
October 27, 1966

Systematic Status of a South American Frog,
Allophryne ruthveni Gaige

BY

JOHN D. LYNCH AND HOWARD L. FREEMAN

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE
1966

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

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

Volume 17, No. 10, pp. 493-502, 3 Figs.
Published October 27, 1966

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY
ROBERT R. (BOB) SANDERS, STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1966

31-5378

Systematic Status of a South American Frog,
Allophryne ruthveni Gaige

BY

JOHN D. LYNCH AND HOWARD L. FREEMAN

Gaige (1926) described _Allophryne ruthveni_ as a new genus and species
of diminutive bufonid from British Guiana. Noble (1931) considered _A.
ruthveni_ to be a toothless relative of _Centrolenella_ and placed the
genus in the Hylidae. Gallardo (1965) suggested that _Allophryne_ is a
leptodactylid of uncertain affinities. Other references to the
monotypic genus have consisted only of a listing of the name or of its
inclusion in a key. To date the holotype and one paratype (both
females) have been reported (Gaige, 1926), and the family position of
the genus remains unsettled.

A male of _Allophryne ruthveni_ is among the amphibians and reptiles
collected in southern British Guiana by William A. Bentley in January,
1962, and deposited in the Museum of Natural History at The University
of Kansas (KU). Four additional specimens (females) are in the Ameri