Alsodes valdiviensis Formas, Cuevas & Brieva 2002

Diagnosis A large-sized species of Alsodes (39.5-63.4 mm) having the following combination of characters: (1) snout strongly truncated in dorsal profile; (2) toes thin and fringed; (3) webbing reduced; (4) legs and arms without dark bars; (5) head with a yellowish triangle; (6) medium-sized nasals; (7) columella absent; (8) transverse processes of the Presacral Vertebra VI laterally oriented; (9) 26 biarmed chromosomes.

Known from Cerro Mirador in the Cordillera Pelada, Valdivia Province, Chile, at 1,100m asl

Description of the holotype Body robust, arms and legs well developed. Head 1.2 times wider than long; its length 31.5% of snout-vent length. Snout truncated in dorsal and lateral profiles. Canthus rostralis well developed, straight; loreal región slightly concave in cross section with minute granules; nostrils anterolateral, approximately midway between tip of snout and anterior border of the eye; eye diameter 1.7 times eye-nostril distance; interorbital distance 1.5 times internarial distance. Tympanum absent; postocular fold well de¬veloped. Tongue rounded with notch at the tip; choanae rounded; dentigerous processes of vomer between choanae, bearing 6-7 teeth. Forelimbs of males not hypertrophied. Fingers in order of increasing length: I = II II > III = V > IV; tips rounded. Webbing present, thin, but reduced. Inner metatarsal tubercle oval, prominent, elongate; outer palmar tubercle smaller than the inner, rounded and prominent. Tarsal fold present, thin, covering 3/4 of the tarsus. Flanks and dorsal surface granular; ventral surface smooth; skin around vent and posterior thighs gran¬ular; ventral skin smooth. Arms and legs smooth. Chest of males with two bilateral rounded dark-brown patches of keratinous spines. Coloration: In alcohol, dorsal surfaces gray; head with a light gray triangle (in life yellowish): loreal areas with black spots; dark gray triangular path (in life light brown) on top of head extending backwards from space between the eyes. Venter gray; throat whitish. Posterior thishs and cloacal área dark brown. Live specimens with dorsal surfaces, arms and legs light brown with golden tints. Venter and throat whitish. Iris black with bronze reticulations.

Europa

DD. Data Deficient.