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Magdalena: Finca La Granja, road to San Lorenzo, 2,300-2,700 m., USNM 



150761; Magdalena Forest, BM 1929.2.1.2; San Lorenzo, Santa Marta 



Mountains, CAS 54736. 

 Meta: Buenavista, USNM 150169; Serrania de La Macarena, CNHM 



81365; Villavicencio, CNHM 81811-5, USNM 118718-9, 146904-20, 150170, 



MLS 410. 

 NariSo: Guitarilla, CNHM 54198, 54342, 54458-64, 54466-71, 54473, 



54475-7, 54479, 54481, 54483; La Guayacana, CNHM 61787-8, 61820, 



61824-5; Tuquerres, CNHM 54185, 54484-5, 54487-90. 

 ECUADOR: Quimbo, BM 98.3.1.4-7. 

 PANAMA: Cans, Darien, USNM 54231, 63005, 66318; Cerro Azul, USNM 



54174. 



Phyllobates palmatus Werner 



Plate 9c-e 



1899. Phyllobates (Hypodictyon) palmatus Werner, p. 478 (type locality, 

 Fusagasuga, near Bogota, Cundinamarca, Colombia). 



1919. Hylixalus granuliventris Boulenger, 1919b, p. 81 (type locality, Bogota, 



Cundinamarca, Colombia) . 



1920. Syrrhophus palmatus. — Barbour and Noble, 1920, p. 401. 



1939. Hyloxalus granuliventris. — Hellmich, 1939, p. 536. — Dunn, 1944a, p. 79; 

 1944d, p. 398, fig. 1; 1957, p. 77. 



1944. Hyloxalus palmatus.— Dunn, 1944a, p. 79; 1944b, p. 403; 1944c, p. 519. 



1957. Prostherapis palmatus. — Dunn, 1957, p. 77. — Stebbins and Hendrickson, 

 1959, p. 512.— Gorham, 1963, p. 25. 



1957. Prostherapis granuliventris. — Dunn, 1957, p. 77. — Stebbins and Hendrick- 

 son, 1959, p. 512. 



Description. — USNM 146899, an adult from Buenavista, Meta, 

 Colombia. Tongue cordiform, two-third as wide as mouth opening, 

 oval, its posterior border free and deeply notched; snout straight-sided, 

 its tip bluntly rounded when viewed from above, rounded in profile, 

 the upper jaw extending slightly beyond the lower. Nostrils lateral, 

 projecting, their distance from end of snout equal to one-half their 

 distance from eye. Can thus rostralis rounded; loreal region flat, its 

 lower margin deeply concave before it joins the vertical upper lip. 

 Eye large, prominent, its diameter nearly equal to its distance from 

 tip of snout; interorbital diameter about 1% times that of upper 

 eyelid, a little less than interval between nostrils. Tympanum fairly 

 distinct, its greatest diameter one-half that of eye, separated from eye 

 by an interval equal to one-third its own diameter. Fingers moderately 

 long, free, with lateral ridges, first and second fingers subequal, 

 fourth finger longer than either and reaching midway on penultimate 

 phalanx of third; disk of third finger covering about one- third the 

 tympanum; a small oval thumb pad present, a larger round palmar 

 callus; metacarpal tubercles well developed. Toes moderately long, 

 half-webbed, third toe longer than fifth, its disk reaching halfway on 

 antepenultimate phalanx of fourth; disk of fourth toe covering about 



