identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
E1162044F15B0B7DFAB85EEBF682F3E5.text	E1162044F15B0B7DFAB85EEBF682F3E5.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Uperodon ornatum . Milli.	<div><p>UPERODON ORNATUM. Milli.</p><p>PLATE XX.—Fig. 6.</p><p>Capite multò latiore quam longiore. Dorso ollivaceo, maculis fuscis, albo marginatis.</p><p>Habitat Buenos Ayres.</p><p>DESCRIPTION.—Head more than half as broad again as it is long, and equal in breadth to half the entire length of the head and body. Muzzle rounded. Nostrils oval, opening upwards and a little outwards. Eyes rather large, the upper eyelids forming perfect ﬂaps, which entirely cover the eyes. Body rounded, very broad. The shoulders and thighs wholly concealed by the skin of the body. Limbs very short. The anterior feet very broad. The toes somewhat depressed, very short, bordered with a fold of skin. Hinder feet with the toes more depressed and more distinctly bordered. Back covered with small glands.</p><p>Colour.—The colour of the upper surface is dark olive, becoming lighter at the sides, and having numerous dark brown spots, which are round, oval, elliptical, or irregular, of very various sizes, placed somewhat symmetrically, and each bordered with a whitish or yellow line. Beneath pale, excepting the throat, which is black.</p><p>I have ventured to consider this remarkable amphibian as speciﬁcally distinct from U. marmoratum of Bibron; a conclusion to which I have been almost imperatively led, by the fact of its inhabiting a different hemisphere from all known specimens of that species. The other was found by M. Lescheuault in the interior of the península of India the specimen from which the present description is taken was obtained by Mr. Darwin at Buenos Ayres. Notwithstanding the similarity of the two species, which is so great as to have led Mons. Bibron to consider them as identical, I could not assent to such an anomaly as the existence of an animal, at once so rare and possessed of such limited powers of locomotion, in two regions so widely remote. I have not the opportunity of comparing the specimens of the former species With the present, but, even from Mons. Bibron`s description, I believe that I can discover sufficient discrepancies between the animals, to bear me out in the view I have taken. These discrepancies I venture to place in the following tabular view, and leave zoologists to form their own conclusions.</p><p>UPERODON MARMORATUM.</p><p>“ La tête offre en arrière une largeur à peu près égale à son longueur totale, laquelle entre pour le quart environ dans l'étendue de l’animal.”</p><p>“ On pourrait considérer la peau comme étant parfaitement lisse, si l’on ne voyait éparses sur le dessus du tronc un certain nombre de verrues glanduleuses d’un assez grand diamètre relativement à la grosseur de l’animal, mais fort peu saillantes ou à peine convexes.”</p><p>“ Les parties supérieures de ce Batracien présentent sur un fond olivâtre, d’énormes tâches brunes, toutes conﬂuentes, ou s'anastomosant diversement. ” *</p><p>UPERODON ORNATUM.</p><p>Head fully half as broad again as it is long, and equal in breadth to half the total length of the animal.</p><p>Back covered with numerous small glandular tubercles, notably elevated.</p><p>All the spots on the back are quite distinct, not in any way passing into each other or connected, and each encircled by a white line.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E1162044F15B0B7DFAB85EEBF682F3E5	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Bell, Thomas	Bell, Thomas (1843): The Zoology Of The Voyage Of H. M. S. Beagle, Under The Command Of Captain Fitzroy, R. N., During The Years 1832 To 1836. In: Reptilia. London: Smith, Elder And Co. 65, Cornhill. Mdcccxliii.: 47-52, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22965364
