FROGS OF COLOMBIA — COCHRAN AND GOIN H 



1882a, p. 459.— Boettger, 1892, p. 51— Bartlett, 1896, p. 595, figs. 

 1, 2. — Bancroft, 1897, p. 101, pis. 4, 5. — Brandes and Schoenichen, 

 1901, p. 404, figs. 5-10.— Gadow, 1901, p. 119, fig. 30.— Baumann, 

 1912, pp. Ill, 164.— Minke, 1914, p. 417.— Beebe, 1919, p. 207; 1925, 

 p. 122.— Ruthven, 1919, p. 14.— Nieden, 1923, p. 17.— Dunn, 1948, 

 p. 9.— Rohl, 1949, p. 395, fig. 177. 



1799. Rana dorsiger Schneider, p. 121 (type localities, Guiana and Surinam). — 

 Dunn, 194S, p. 9. 



1802. Bufo dorsiger. — Sonnini and Latreille, 1802, p. 120, fig. 2. of plate facing 

 p. 112 of vol. 2.— Daudin, 1802, p. 85, pi. 31, pi. 32, fig. 2; 1803, p. 172. 



1820. Pipa tedo Merrem, p. 179 (type locality, Surinam). — Dunn, 1948, p. 9. 



1824. Pipa curucuru Spix, p. 53, pi. 22, figs. 1, 2 (type localities, Bahia(?) and 

 Amazon River). 



1826. Pipa dorsigera. — Fitzinger, 1826, p. 65. — Gravenhorst, 1829, p. 70. — 

 Dumenl and Bibron, 1841, p. 774.— Ernst, 1877, p. 281.— Brandes 

 and Schoenichen, 1901, p. 423. 



1830. Aster odactylus pipa.— Wagler, 1830, p. 199.— Schinz, 1833, p. 237, pi. 96, 

 fig. 8.— Tschudi, 1838, p. 90.— Durneril and Bibron, 1841, p. 774 — 

 Brandes and Schoenichen, 1901, p. 423. 



1835. Leptopus asterodactylus Mayer, p. 34 (substitute for Pipa americana 

 Laur.). — Durnenl and Bibron, 1S41, p. 774. — Dunn, 1948, p. 10. 



1836- Pipa surinamensis Duvernoy, in Cuvier, pi. 39, fig. 2 (substitute for 



1849. Rana pipa Linn.).— Cope, 1870, p. 156.— Sclater, 1895, p. 86.— Dunn, 

 1948, p. 10. 



1836- Pipa laevis Duvernoy, in Cuvier, p. 155, footnote 2 (type locality, Rio 



1849. Negro, Brazil) .—Dunn, 1948, p. 10. 



1841. Pipa cururuu. — Durneril and Bibron, p. 774. 



1858. Pipa sedo — Schlegel, 1858, p. 59, pi. 4, fig. 78.— Dunn, 1948, p. 10. 



1923. Pipa pernigra Barbour, 1923b, p. 4, pi. 2, fig. 1 (type locality, Lago 

 Maximo, near Villa Bella, Brazil, between the mouths of Rio Madeira 

 and Rio Tapajoz). — Barbour and Loveridge, 1929, p. 320. — Dunn, 

 1948, p. 10. 



1923. Pipa pipa.— Barbour, 1923b, p. 3.— Noble, 1925, p. 1.— Miranda- Ribeiro, 

 1926, p. 198, pi. 22, figs. 105-110.— Cott, 1926, p. 1159.— Crawford, 

 1931, p. 28.— Mello-Leitao, 1937, p. 277.— Dunn, 1948, p. 9.— Hno. 

 Niceforo Maria, 1958, p. 13.— Gines, 1959, p. 104.— Goin, 1960b, 

 p. 434.— Rabb, 1960, p. 308, 1 fig.; 1961, p. 95, figs.— Rabb and Rabb, 

 1960, p. 271, 3 figs.; 1963, p. 636, 1 fig.— Rabb and Snedigar, 1960, 

 p. 40, 1 fig.— Rivero, 1961, p. 17.— Cochran, 1961, p. 49, photographs — 

 Bokermann, 1962, p. 214.— Gorham, 1963, p. 15.— Neill, 1964, p. 275. 



Description. — MLS 810, an adult from Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia. 

 Snout short, flat-sided, making an obtuse angle when viewed from 

 above, pointed in profile, the upper jaw extending considerably beyond 

 the lower. Nostrils small, slightly projecting, lying at tip of snout, 

 narrowly separated. Can thus rostralis not well marked; loreal region 

 narrow, vertical, merging with the very narrow upper lip. Eye ex- 

 tremely small, halfway between angle of jaw and tip of snout, and 

 one-fifth of that distance in diameter; interorbital diameter nine or 

 ten times that of the narrow upper eyelid, and about three times that 



