Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca

A comprehensive taxonomic and natural-history monograph treating a Central American hylid frog genus. It provides identification keys for adults and tadpoles, detailed species accounts with measurements, variation and distribution, comparative osteology and musculature, skin and protein biochemistry, and chromosome data. The work documents breeding behavior, calls, egg and tadpole morphology, growth and development, and habitat associations, illustrated with plates and audiospectrographs. Analytical sections examine ontogenetic change, interspecific relationships, and evolutionary history, synthesizing field observations, museum specimens, and developmental series to clarify species limits, diagnostic characters, and life-history variation across the genus.