Mitchell's Narrow-mouthed Toad. 



Gastrophryne areolata (Strecker). 



Range: Southeastern Texas. Known only from Victoria and 

 Calhoun counties (Strecker, 191 5, p. 47). 



Habitat: Under logs and similar shelter. 

 Size: Adults, 7/8-1 1/5 inches. (Males, 24-28 mm. Females, 23-30 

 mm.). (From 5 accessions of 14 specimens in U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



General appearance: It is like Gastrophryne carolinensis but the 

 back is areolated, the posterior parts even pustular (in alcohol). One 

 is light gray with darker markings or marblings which are heaviest in 

 the dorsal region. The limbs are heavily marked. Another is dark, 

 the limbs marked with blotches of brownish olive, a dark line from 

 orbit to orbit along the muzzle, and a V-shaped mark between the 

 orbits. No dark line extends along the sides as in G. carolinensis. 

 (Data from Strecker, 1909, pp. 11 8-1 19.). 



Structure: Smaller than G. carolinensis; body stout, more uniform 

 in width than G. carolinensis; muzzle shorter; hind limbs short; 

 hind foot unusually short; inner sole tubercle large. (Data from 

 Strecker, 1909, p. 119.). 



Voice: No published records. 



Breeding: No published records. 



Notes: The pustulate or areolate character of G. areolata does not 

 impress us as noteworthy, when one remembers the pustulate character 

 in the posterior region or whole dorsum of some individual G. 

 carolinensis in the southeast. In fact we have seen some there more 

 pustular than any specimen of G. areolata revealed to date. 



A debatable form. 



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