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名字:泰宁猫眼蟾
学名:Aelurophryne tainingensis
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Diagnosis.—Avery distinct Aelurophrgne(pl. 4, fig. 4)with many rounded light-colored warts on the back, marbled with many smaller ones scattered among them; crowded eounded warts on the belly of the male, confined to the posteriorbelly region in the female; size small, body slender and depressed; a pair of spuarish flattened chest glands narrowly separated from each other, and a pair of oval axillary glands with two-thirds of their inner margins in contact with the lateral margins of the chest glands in the male; the inner two fingers of the male with nuptial pads ,without strong black asperities; tongue notched behind, no vomerine or maxillaey teeth; no prehumeral glandular area; no warts on the soles of the feet.
Description of tgpe.—Body slender and dorso-ventrally depressed; head scarcely longer than broad, depressed; slightly projecting beyond the mouth, and longer than the length of the eye; canthus rostralis obtuse; loreal region oblique, concave; nostril nearer to the tip of the snout than to the anterior border of the eye; interorbital space as broad as the space between the nostrils ans greater than the width of the upper eyelid; tympanum hidden;jaws rather weak; no vomerine teeth; novocal sacs in the male.
Fingers long and rather slender (fig.21,B),the first as long as the second,with light-colored nuptial pads on the inner dorsal sides; the fourth finger longer than the first and second but much more slender; the third the longest and alsoslender; subarticular tubercles indistinct; palmar tubercles developed but very flat; tips of fingers lighter in color.'
Hind limb short and weak, its length 125 per cent of the body length, thetibio-tarsal articulation reaching the base of the arm, the heels mot meeting when placed at right angles to the body; tibia 38 per cent of the body length; toes (fig.21,C) slightly fringed, their tips rounded and slightly dilated,the two inner toes about one-thitd webbed at base; subarticular tubercles present but indistinct; u\inner metatarsal tubercle elongated, with a free edge, outer metatarsaltubercle wanting,
Skin rough,with many large large and small pitted warts, more or less evenly distributed on the back; smaller warts on the exposed parts of the limbs; a string glandular fold from the posterior cormer of each upper eyelid, descending obliquely to the forelimb; large warts near the anai region; numerous warts varying in size on the posterior aspect of the thigh. Belly with numerous smooth warts,with smaller ones scattered on the inner and ventral sides of the arms. Two pairs of large glands on the thoracic region (fig.21,A); the chest glands, the unner pair,slightly longer than beoad, rounded anteriorly, the posterior margin squarish, with indentatins; the outer pair, the axillary glands, oval, the anterior, two-thirds of the inner margin in contact the posterior lateral margin of the chest gland; both pairs smooth and eithout black asperities or spines; light-colored nuptial pads developed on the inner dorsal sides of the first two fingers.
Mwasurements of tgpe (percentage of body length in parentheses).—Body length 51.0mm.; head length 16.0 mm.(31.3); head width 16.0 mm. (31.3); unterorbital space 4.4 mm.(8.6);length of chest gland 5.0 mm.(9.8); width of chest gland 5.5 mm. (10.7); space between chest glands 0.33 mm.; length of axillary gland 4.5 mm. (8.8); width of axillary gland 2.5 mm.(4.9); length of lower arm 25.0mm. (49.0); diameter of lower arm 6.0mm. (11.7); length of hand 1.5mm. (26.4); length of leg 63.5mm.(124.5); length of tibia 19.5mm.(38.2); length of foot and tarsus 33.0mm.(64.7); length of foot 23.0 mm.(45.0);length of inner metatarsal tubercle 4.0mm.(7.8).