Batrachians and Reptiles of Ohio, Issue 19 |
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adults aquatic Batrachia Batrachians and Reptiles brown brownish Carapace Cedar Point Chillicothe collected by Dr collected by E. V. collected by Lynds common Cope from Columbus Cope from Marietta Costal grooves dark dorsal band E. V. Wilcox eastern Eutainia sirtalis Family frogs gastrosteges Geol green greenish Ground color habits insects J. S. Hine Jones in Lorain Lancaster larvae Legs Length 3 inches Length 3½ Licking Lindahl from Hamilton lizards Lower jaw Lynds Jones median dorsal Natrix fasciata Newton Falls O. S. U. Mus Oberlin College occurs Ohio ovoviviparous Paleont Phil Plastron plates Proc PROTEIDA Rana Rattler rattles recorded by Cope Reptiles salamanders Sandusky Scales keeled Scales smooth shell sides Smith 82 snout species Spelerpes Stejneger stripe sub-species Sugar Grove Surv Tail toads Toes turtle U. S. Nat venom Vinton W. H. Smith Wilcox 91 writer yellow spots yellowish Youngstown
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Page 111 - The value of the cinereus and erythronotus forms is difficult to determine. They have been regarded as distinct species. Prof. Cope says that as varieties they are very permanent ones. He has found all of the young of the same brood or set of eggs, whether in the eggs or just escaped from them, uniformly with either dark backs or red ones.
Page 119 - ... .stripes running more or less parallel. Length I inch. This is the so-called " Little Tree-Toad," a name that would probably be appropriate if the little fellow ever climbed trees ! It is to be found in swamps on low herbage or on the ground. It has a note somewhat similar to the preceding species, but the pitch is higher and the rattle is less definite. The note is seldom heard in daylight hours except on dark days. The writer has never heard it, as Cope says, in the hottest hours.
Page 118 - V$ inch. The Cricket-frog is well known to anyone who frequents the river-side or the swamp — less, however, by its appearance than its note. If one can imagine a rattling of pebbles mingled with the screech of a violin .string in a high note, he may have a suggestion of the Cricket-frog's note. When given it is either a continuous chirp or given in sets of chirps of three each, each rising in pitch.
Page 118 - ... collected by Lynds Jones from Lorain Co.; in OSU Mus., collected by the author at Cedar Point, Vinton, Youngstown, Chillicothe, Newton Falls and Licking Co. Family : HYLIDAE. Acris gryllus crepitans Baird. Above olive-brown, with an inverted *' Y "-shaped green area; the median parts of the "Y" extend along the vertebral line, the forking taking place on the rump. Brown triangle between eyes. Sides marked with three oblong blotches. White line from eye to shoulder. Disks of fingers small, not...
Page 115 - ... legs of the small Spelerpes larvae are slender and scarcely exceed the fore legs in length. The digits of both fore and hind feet of Spelerpes larvae of all sizes are attenuated, and the feet never have the robust appearance of those of Desmognathus larvae. Morse ('04) says of Desmognathus fusca: "The larvae attain a length of three inches before becoming mature, and inhabit springs and small bodies of water. They are brown with black dots above, lighter below, retaining also the black dotting....