. Ecological animal geography; an authorized, rewritten edition based on Tiergeographie auf ockologischer grundlage . Fig. 118.—Female of the tropical American frog Cerathyla bubalus, carrying eggs attached to her back. After Boulenger. hatching. Frogs of the genus Eleutherodactylus, with some hundred species in tropical America, glue their large eggs to a leaf, place them in the axils of leaves, or conceal them beneath stones. The young go through a curtailed metamorphosis in the egg and hatch in adult form. Still others carry their eggs about until the young emerge as adults (Fig. 118).40 Ma
. Ecological animal geography; an authorized, rewritten edition based on Tiergeographie auf ockologischer grundlage . Fig. 118.—Female of the tropical American frog Cerathyla bubalus, carrying eggs attached to her back. After Boulenger. hatching. Frogs of the genus Eleutherodactylus, with some hundred species in tropical America, glue their large eggs to a leaf, place them in the axils of leaves, or conceal them beneath stones. The young go through a curtailed metamorphosis in the egg and hatch in adult form. Still others carry their eggs about until the young emerge as adults (Fig. 118).40 Many of these species have been seen but seldom, and the number of individuals is estimated principally by the many- voiced chorus of the males after sundown. The relatively abundant41 but voiceless reptilian life of these forests attracts still less attention. Aquatic or semi-aquatic forms may usually be seen along watercourses. Lizards are more abundant within the forest than are snakes. These forest lizards belong principally to four
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