Ricord's Frog. Cricket-toad, 



Plate LI 1 1 . i -4, 6 . 



Adults (xi). 5,7. Embryo de- 

 veloping within the egg. No 

 free tadpole (X5). 8. Larva 

 freed from gelatinous en- 

 velope, 3 days older than 

 fig. 7. 9. Female (xij). (5-9. 

 Drawings by R. F. Deckert.) 



Eleutherodactylus ricordii 

 (Dumeril and Bibron). 



Range: Bahama Islands, 

 Cuba and Florida, north to 

 Auburndale and Gainesville, 

 Fla. It is spreading north- 

 ward. 



Habitat: Subtropical 

 Florida. Entirely terrestrial. 

 In the hammock or in dry 

 pine barren lands under heaps 

 of limestone where there 

 would always be moisture. 



Size: Adults, 3/5-1 1/5 

 inches. (15-30 mm.). 



General appearance: It is 

 small, elongate, similar to 

 Syrrhophus marnockii but pos- 

 sesses two long transverse 

 curved series of vomerine 

 teeth, behind the internal 

 nares. These are delicate 

 little frogs with the head as 

 broad as any part of the 

 body. The eyes are promi- 

 nent, bead-like, bronzy and 

 black. The snout is promi- 

 nent, truncate, extending 

 slightly beyond the lower 

 jaw. The legs are long and 

 slender. The fingers and toes 

 are very slender with ter- 

 minal disks, and prominent 

 palettes at the joints of 



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