. Chinese herpetological research. Amphibians; Reptiles. Fig. 5. Skulls of Paramesotriton fuzhongensis (left) with maxillary separated from the pterygoid, and Paramesotriton guangxiensis (right). The fronto-squamosal arch of the new species is slender and the outer edge is ahnost a straight line. It is larger and stout, with the outer edge nearly a right angle, in P. guangxiensis (Figs. 3 & 4). The maxillary of the new species is separated from the pterygoid by a large interval, while it almost touches the anterior tip of the pterygoid in P. guangxiensis (Fig. 5). The notch of nares intemu
. Chinese herpetological research. Amphibians; Reptiles. Fig. 5. Skulls of Paramesotriton fuzhongensis (left) with maxillary separated from the pterygoid, and Paramesotriton guangxiensis (right). The fronto-squamosal arch of the new species is slender and the outer edge is ahnost a straight line. It is larger and stout, with the outer edge nearly a right angle, in P. guangxiensis (Figs. 3 & 4). The maxillary of the new species is separated from the pterygoid by a large interval, while it almost touches the anterior tip of the pterygoid in P. guangxiensis (Fig. 5). The notch of nares intemus on the vomer in the new species is shallow and vertical. It is. Fig. 6. Hyoid aparatus of Paramesotriton fuzhongensis (left), and Paramesotriton guangxiensis (right). Arrows show ceratohyal. deeper and transverse in P. guangxiensis (Fig. 5). The trunk vertebrae of the new species are slender and the ribs direct more backward; the trunk vertebra are stout and the ribs direct more laterally in P. guangxiensis (Fig. 3). The seventeenth vertebra (third caudal vertebra) begins to have a hemal canal in the new species, instead of the sixteenth vertebra (second caudal vertebra) in P. guangxiensis. The hyoid apparatus in the two species differs in appearance, the ceratohyal being apparently shorter in the new species (Fig. 6). Literature Cited CHANG, M. 1955. The amphibia of China. In Fudan Univ. Series, pp. 1-75. (In Chinese.) CHANG, T., AND A. M. BORING. 1934-35. Studies in variation among the Chinese amphibia. Peking Nat. Hist. Bull. 9(4):327- 358. HU, S., E. DJAO'', AND C. LIU. 1973. A survey of amphibians and reptiles in Kweichow Province, including a herpetofaunal analysis. Acta Zoologica Sinica I9(2):I49-178. (In Chinese.) Currently, the name E. Djao is written E. Zhao (ed).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the
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