Tomodactylus fuscus Davis and Dixon, Herpetologica, 11:157, July 15, 1955.—1.5 miles southeast of Huitzilac, Morelos, México.
Los Cantiles (2); 28 km. E of Morelia.
The range of this species includes the Sierra Ajusco in México and Morelos and thence westward to the Serranía Ucareo in Michoacán. The specimen from 28 kilometers east of Morelia was found in an oak forest on a steep hillside at an elevation of 2100 meters. One from Los Cantiles was calling from a steep cliff at an elevation of 2200 meters in pine-oak forest. This specimen (UMMZ 119156) in life had a pale olive-brown dorsum with irregular dark brown mottling and transverse bars on the limbs. The interorbital bar, the upper arms, and the tips of the dorsal pustules were pale orange; the iris was pale grayish gold (Pl. 3, Fig. 2).
Tomodactylus nitidus nitidus (Peters)
Liuperus nitidus Peters, Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 878, 1869.—Izúcar de Matamoras, Puebla, México.
Tomodactylus amulae Günther, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Reptilia and Batrachia, p. 219, April, 1900.—Amula, Guerrero, México.
Tomodactylus nitidus nitidus, Dixon, Texas Jour. Sci., 9:385, December, 1957.
Copuyo (15); Tuxpan (8); Tzitzio (11).
One specimen from Tzitzio (UMMZ 99155) was referred to Tomodactylus nitidus petersi by Dixon (1957:390). A re-examination of this specimen, and examination of ten others from the same locality (UMMZ 121571) reveals that the relatively small size of the tympanum and absence of dense ventral spotting place these specimens closer to T. nitidus nitidus than to T. nitidus petersi.
The specimens from Tuxpan (UMMZ 114303-4) had in life a gray to olive tan ground color with dark olive-green markings, bright yellow thighs with olive-green transverse bands, yellowish tan shanks with olive-green bars, yellow groin, white inguinal glands with black markings, grayish white belly with scattered brownish black spots in some specimens, and a deep golden iris (Pl. 4, Fig. 1). These specimens were found calling from bushes in a rocky field at an elevation of 1800 meters. The call is a high-pitched "pee-ee-eep."