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side. On each side posterior to this line are three rounded white dots 

 anterior to groin. A pair of rounded white dots are in middle of throat 

 region and a single ocellus-like white spot is in middle of pectoral 

 region. On the forelimbs the dorsal pigment extends to base of fingers, 

 where it stops abruptly. A narrow margin of white on lateral side of 

 little finger to base of disk. On the hind limbs the dorsal pigment 

 covers dorsal surface of fifth toe and half of dorsal surface of fourth toe. 

 Remarks. — Since the type is the only known specimen, we know 

 nothing of this species' geographic range or variation. 



Phyllomedusa hypochondrialis hypochondrialis (Dawlin) 



Figure 39 



1803. Hyla hypochondrialis Daudin, p. 29 (type locality, Suriname). — Fitzinger, 

 1826, p. 63.— Gravenhorst, 1829, p. 29. 



1820. Calamita hypochondrialis. — Merrem, 1820, p. 170. 



1841. Phyllomedusa bicolor. — Dumeril and Bibron, p. 629 (part). — Giinther, 

 1858, p. 120 (part). 



1862. Phyllomedusa hypochondrialis. — Cope, lS62b, p. 355. — Boulenger, 1882a, 

 p. 430; 1882b, p. 264.— Berg, 1896, p. 213.— Budgett, 1899, p. 313.— 

 Gadow, 1901, p. 204— Mehely, 1904, p. 230.— Bles, 1905, p. 605 — 

 Musshoff, 1906, p. 255.— Beebe, 1919, p. 208.— Nieden, 1923, p. 337 — 

 Lutz and Lutz, 1939, p. 219.— B. Lutz, 1950, p. 601.— Funkhouser, 1957 

 p. 44.— Stebbins and Hendrickson, 1959, p. 527.— Gans, 1960, p. 303 — 

 Gorham, 1963, p. 24. 



1868. Pithecopus hypochondrialis. — Cope, 1868, p. 112. 



1923. Phrynomedusa hypochondrialis.— Miranda-Ribeiro, 1923a, p. 3. 



1926. Bradymedusa hypochondrialis. — Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926, p. 105. 



1961. Phyllomedusa hypochondrialis hypochondrialis. — Rivero, 1961, p. 150. 



Diagnosis. — A small, brightly colored Phyllomedusa with the first 

 toe longer than the second. 



P. hypochondrialis hypochondrialis can be distinguished from all 

 Colombian Phyllomedusa except blombergi by the combination of a 

 bright black and white pattern on the rear of the thigh together with 

 the first toe being longer than the second. From blombergi it can be dis- 

 tinguished by the lack of a row of white dots along each dorsolateral 

 fold from behind the eye to the region of the sacral hump. 



Description. — CNHM 81771, from Villavicencio, Meta, Colombia. 

 Vomerine teeth absent; choanae small, rounded, and well separated; 

 tongue three-fifths as wide as mouth opening, broadly pear-shaped, 

 its posterior border free and unnotched. Snout short, broadly tri- 

 angular when viewed from above, truncate in profile, sloping but 

 very slightly, the upper jaw extending hardly at all beyond lower; 

 nostrils lateral, slightly projecting, their distance from end of snout 

 about one-half that from eye, separated from each other by an interval 

 slightly greater than their distance from eye. Canthus rostralis well 

 defined; loreal region nearly flat and very nearly vertical, the upper 



