Engystomops pustulosus ( Cope, 1864 )

Ovalle-Pacheco, Andrés, Camacho-Rozo, Claudia & Arroyo, Sandy, 2019, Amphibians from Serrania de Las Quinchas, in the mid-Magdalena river valley, Colombia, Check List 15 (3), pp. 387-404 : 398

Engystomops pustulosus ( Cope, 1864)

Paludicola pustulosa Cope 1864: 180 .

Engystomops pustulosus — Boulenger 1882: 276.

In this study, males SVL = 23.9–28.8 mm, females SVL = 31.6–34.8 mm. Small toad, bulky body, slender extremities; short head; small mouth; no teeth are pres- ent on the maxilla and premaxilla; small parotid glands; tuberculate tympanic membrane; fingers are long and thin, finger I is longer than finger II; dorsal region is brown, grayish, with darker spots, the gular region, the chest and the anterior part of the belly are grayish, with a yellowish line, the belly is slightly granular, white. A total of 29 individuals were recorded, and were observed in the stations 3, 4 and 5, between 250 and 800 m, on the leaf litter and on bare soil. It has a wide distribution, from southeast Mexico ( Lee 1996) to Venezuela (Gor- zula and Señaris 1999 “1998”), and in the lowlands of the Caribbean, Magdalena river valley and north Orinoco basin in Colombia ( Acosta-Galvis 2012a, Pedroza- Banda et al. 2014).