Description - Snout about 1.4-2.2 times as long as eye diameter, slightly longer than 

 distance between eye and ear opening; head and body longer than tail, its length about 

 1.06-1.28 times as great as length of tail; hindlimb length 61-77% of axilla-groin distance. 

 Measurements are given in Table 4. 



Table 4. Measurements (in mm) oi Hemiphyllodactylus yunnanensis dushanensis. 



Total Ear Snout- Snout- Axilla-groin Forclimb Hindlimb 



length oponing anterior posterior distance length length 



margin margin 



of eye of ear 



opening"-' 



Rostral wider than high, upper margin notched medially; supralabials 9-12, infralabials 

 8-12; chin shields arranged in arc, medial pair enlarged, followed by a row of slightly 

 enlarged scales; male with 22-29 preanal-femoral pores. 



Color of preserved specimen brownish gray; one indistinct dark marking running from tip 

 of snout through eye and upper margin of ear opening to shoulder; dorsal surface of body 

 without dark pattern, or with a few indistinct dark irregular markings; dorsal surface of tail 

 usually without distinct pattern, but more than 10 transverse dark bands in a few 

 specimens. 



Ecological data - More than half of the adult females collected at Dushan of Guizhou in 

 June had eggs, 6.2X8.7 - 6.8X9.2 mm in size, at the upper end of oviducts. The testes of 

 adult males measured about 3.5 X 5.5 mm. 



About one fifth of the specimens from Dushan had ticks on the ventral surface of the body 

 and Umbs. , ,, 



SICHUAN 



HUNAN 



;GUANGDONG 



Fig. 7. Map showmg the distribution of each subspecies of Hemiphyllodactylus 



yunnanensis in China. The solid circles, solid rectangles, dot in circles, and the solid 



triangle represent locality records of H. y. yunnanensis. H. y. longlingensis. H. y. 



jinpingensis. and H. y. dushanensis. respectively*^. 



