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=_Micrurus elegans veraepacis_= Schmidt.--This species has been collected at various localities in Alta Verapaz and in Chiapas, inhabits areas like those in southern El Peten, and probably occurs there.
SUMMARY
A study of the amphibians and reptiles in the rainforests of southern El Peten, Guatemala, reveals the presence of 78 species; an additional 13 species probably occur there. In this tropical area having a high amount of rainfall most of the species of amphibians and reptiles have extensive ranges in the wet forests on the Atlantic lowlands of southern Mexico and northern Central America; some species that more frequently are found in sub-humid forests also occur.
Ecologically the fauna is divided into five major habitats--aquatic, aquatic margin, fossorial, terrestrial, and arboreal. Forty-two per cent of the 78 species are wholly or partly arboreal. The fauna is most closely related to that in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, but includes many species that occur in the Tikal-Uaxactun area in northeastern Guatemala.
_Eleutherodactylus rostralis_ (Werner) and _E. rhodopis_ (Cope) are redefined and their relations.h.i.+ps are suggested. The color phases of _Dryadophis melanolomus laevis_ and _D. m. alternatus_ are discussed; _Dryadophis sanguiventris_ Taylor is synonymized with _Dryadophis melanolomus alternatus_ (Bocourt).
The breeding habits, eggs, and tadpoles of the hylid frogs _Hyla ebraccata_ and _Phyllomedusa callidryas taylori_ are described, as are the eggs and juveniles of _Laemanctus deborrei_.
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