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Paul De Benedictis
1960
Scaphiopus multiplicatus
Sept 5 Chalco, Mexico, Mexico (T. Papenkiss-McA. Edey collectors) - # 98
Snout-vent 1 1/2". Ground color brownish olive, a dark(1) dorsolateral line and a middorsal line,
which other in the sacral region, and a somewhat
lighter(3) lateral line, all of these being about 2X wider
than the interspaces; snout and eyelids brownish blue(2)
speckled with much darker. Back, sides, and limbs
shaded with black bordered(6) olive(7) or brownish to
cream(5) tubercles, the olive being mostly middorsal, and
the reddish on the limbs and sides,(8) and the cream
in the anal region. Belly bluish gray, throat creamy,
under surface of limbs reddish.(8) Eye olive(2), browzier
above, cloth brownish anteriorly & posteriorly to pupil.
metatarsal tubercle black, conspicuous.