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U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 206 



Bufo paracnemis A. Lutz 



Figure 2 



1925, Bufo paracnemis A. Lutz, 1925b, p. 213 (type locality, Bello Horizonte, 

 Minas Gerais); T926a, pp. 9, 15; 1934, pp. 114, 139, pi. 13 (lower part), 

 pi. 14 (lower part), pis. 15-18, pi. 26, fig. ]. — Brazil and Vellard, 

 1926,p. 23, pis. 5, 6.— Serie, 1935b, p. 510; 1936, pp. 214-218, fig. 37, 

 pi. 11.— Mello-Leitao, 1937, pp. 303, 315.— Freiberg, 1942, p. 223.— 

 Travassos and Freitas, 1942. p. 282. 



1936. Bufo marinus -paracnemis MtJLLER and Hellmich, p. 14, fig. 4, pi. 5, — 

 Rengel, 1948, pp. 279-282. 



Description. — Redescription of adult male, USNM 97238 (cotype), 

 Bello Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Tongue elongate, spatulate, over 

 one-third the width of mouth-opening, entire and free for most 

 of its length behind; snout short, broadly rounded from above, 

 truncate in profile, the upper jaw scarcely extending beyond 

 lower; nostrils nearly at tip of snout and well below can thus, with 

 the opening directed upwards and backwards, separated from each 

 other by an interval equal to their distance from eye. Canthus 

 rostralis marked by a short, heavy ridge forking in front of eye as a 

 preocular crest, the main part continuing above the eye and abruptly 

 turning at right angles to form a postocular crest, again forking above 

 the ear and running into the heavy elongate parotoids, which are 



Figure 2. — Bvjo paracnemis, USNM 97238 (cotype): a, Dorsum X ^i; h, profile X M; 



c, foot X H; <^. hand X J^. 



