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Pseitdopaludicola ameghini (Cope) 



Figure 27 



1887. Paludicola ameghini Cope, p. 50 (type locality, Chapada, Mato Grosso). — 

 Baumann, 1912, p. 162. — Nieden, 1923, p. 507. — Miranda-Ribeiro, 

 1926, pp. 164, 223.— Mello-Leitao, 1937, pp. 315, 342. 



1927. Pseudopaludicola ameghini Parker, 1927b, p. 454. 



Description. — Adult male, USNM 98433, Pirapora, Minas Gerais. 

 Tongue oval, about one-half the width of mouth-opening, rounded 

 on its free posterior border. Snout round when viewed from above 

 and in profile; upper jaw projecting considerably beyond lower. 

 Nostrils superolateral, midway between tip of snout and eye, the 

 interval between them equal to their distance from eye; canthus 

 rostralis bluntly rounded, merging into the flat, sloping loreal region, 

 which is set off from the upper lip by a short furrow. Eye large and 



Figure 27. — Pseudopaludicola ameghini, USNM 98433: a, Dorsum; b, profile; c, foot; d, 



hand; all X 2%. 



prominent, its diameter not quite as great as its distance from end 

 of snout ; interorbital diameter as wide as upper eyelid, equal to inter- 

 val between nostrils. Tympanum not visible. Fingers moderately 

 long, fringed, not dilated, second slightly longer than fourth, reaching 

 to base of antepenultimate phalanx of third; a large oval metacarpal 

 tubercle and a crescentic one at base of first finger; subarticular 

 tubercles of hands and feet well developed ; a small oval antebrachial 

 tubercle near base of thumb, and indications of a second one at the 

 end of a fold extending nearly to the elbow. Toes long, fringed, 

 third longer than fifth, reaching halfway along the antepenultimate 

 phalanx of fourth; a moderate oval inner and a small outer meta- 

 tarsal tubercle; a heavy tarsal ridge beginning at the inner tubercle, 



