Although Rana pustulosa seems to be absent from the Mexican Plateau in Michoacán, it has been collected at elevations of 850 to 2150 meters on the slopes of the Cordillera Volcánico and in the Sierra de Coalcomán. Usually the frogs are found along rocky streams, but at Coalcomán they were found in a hyacinth-choked old river channel, and at El Sabino, in irrigation ditches.
In most specimens the dorsum is dark olive-brown; in some it is pale olive-tan with dense dark brown mottling on the back and dark transverse bands on the hind limbs.
Thirteen tadpoles (UMMZ 94271) taken from a seepage pool by a stream near Uruapan closely resemble the description of tadpoles of this species given by Taylor (1942b).
REPTILIA
Testudines
Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus)
Testudo mydas Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10:197, 1758.—Type locality restricted to Ascension Island by Mertens and Müller (1928:23).
Chelonia mydas, Brongniart, Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom., 2:89, 1800.