Robert G. Webb

“ The elevation or flatness of the lumbar glands seems to be due to individual variation; living specimens in the field had conspicuous and protuberant, or non-elevated, indistinct lumbar glands. Lumbar glands are not to be confused with inguinal glands, [Pg 181] which are roundish, often yellowish, sometimes diffuse, lateral but low, often inconspicuous, and usually not protuberant. Inguinal glands occur in the genus Microbatrachylus and in some species of Eleutherodactylus, and have been described as flat, or low, or small, or indistinct for most species of Syrrhophus. ”

“ Tomodactylus saxatilis, having lumbar glands, also resembles three species referred to the genus Syrrhophus. Tomodactylus macrotympanum was described by Taylor (1940:496, 497) as having a large, moderately distinct lumbar gland; the species was referred to the genus Syrrhophus by Dixon (op. cit.:384) . According to Firschein (1954:55) , Syrrhophus smithi and S. petrophilus have elongate lumbar glands shaped like those in Tomodactylus. Tomodactylus saxatilis resembles macrotympanum, smithi and petrophilus more than it does other species ”

“ Head slightly wider than body; tip of snout rounded, slightly truncate; canthus rounded; tympanum small, less than one half diameter of eye; tympanum having posterior margin ill-defined, separated from eye by distance about equal to diameter of tympanum; diameter of eye slightly less than distance from eye to nostril; width of eyelid about two thirds interorbital width; paratoid gland indistinct; lumbar glands high, separated from insertion of leg by about one millimeter; back and sides of body having low, scarcely elevated pustules; top of head, limbs and venter smooth ”