. Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia s. Ecaudata in the ... British Museum. Upper view of head. Crown with bony ridges, viz. a supraorbital and a parietal, forming together a straight or nearly straight line, and a short orbito-tympauic ; snout short, subacuminate, with prominent canthus rostralis ; interorbital space a little broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum very distinct, as large as the eye. First finger generally not extending beyond second ; toes half or two-thirds webbed, with simple subarticular tubercles ; two moderate metatarsal tubercles; no tarsal fold. The hind limb being
. Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia s. Ecaudata in the ... British Museum. Upper view of head. Crown with bony ridges, viz. a supraorbital and a parietal, forming together a straight or nearly straight line, and a short orbito-tympauic ; snout short, subacuminate, with prominent canthus rostralis ; interorbital space a little broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum very distinct, as large as the eye. First finger generally not extending beyond second ; toes half or two-thirds webbed, with simple subarticular tubercles ; two moderate metatarsal tubercles; no tarsal fold. The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches the tympanum or the eye. Upper surfaces with very prominent, conical, spiny tubercles ; parotoids very prominent, small, subtriangular or oval. Brownish above, marbled with darker; beneath more or less spotted with brown. Male with a subgular vocal sac. Java, Borneo. a-b. $. Java. Leyden Museum. c,d. 6 Java. Dr. Ploem [C.]. • e-i. J & h'j'r. Java. G. Lvon, Esq. [P.]. k-m. 2 & hgr. Borneo. L. L.'Dillwyn, Esq. [P.], 48. Bufo claviger. Bufo claviger, Peters, Mm. Berl. Ac. 1863, p. Upper view of head. Closely allied to B. biporcatus, from which it differs in the much more developed cranial ridges, which arc much swollen behind,. 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 original British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology . [Amphibia]; Boulenger, George Albert, 1858-1937. London
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