Scinax

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Scinax
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Scinax
Wagler, 1830
Species

See text.

Scinax (Snouted Treefrogs) is a genus of frogs in the Hylidae family, and are found in eastern and southern Mexico to Argentina and Uruguay, Trinidad and Tobago and Saint Lucia. These are small to moderate-sized tree frogs, drably colored. Duellman and Wiens resurrected This genus in 1992. The name originates from the Greek word skinos, meaning quick or nimble.











[edit] Species

95 species are currently assigned to this genus.

Binomial Name
and Author
Common Name
Scinax acuminatus acuminatus (Cope, 1862) Mato Grosso Snouted Treefrog
S. agilis (Cruz and Peixoto, 1983) Agile Snouted Treefrog
S. albicans (Bokermann, 1967) Teresopolis Snouted Treefrog
S. alcatraz (Lutz, 1973) Alcatraz Snouted Treefrog
S. altae (Dunn, 1933)
S. alter (Lutz, 1973) Crubixa Snouted Treefrog
S. angrensis Lutz, 1973
S. arduous Peixoto, 2002
S. argyreornatus (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926) Rio Mutum Snouted Treefrog
S. ariadne (Bokermann, 1967) Serra da Bocaina Snouted Treefrog
S. aromothyella Faivovich, 2005
S. atratus (Peixoto, 1989) Peixoto's Snouted Treefrog
S. auratus (Wied-Neuwied, 1821) Santa Ines Snouted Treefrog
S. baumgardneri (Rivero, 1961) Baumgardner's Snouted Treefrog
S. berthae (Barrio, 1962) Dwarf Snouted Treefrog
S. blairi (Fouquette and Pyburn, 1972) Blair's Snouted Treefrog
S. boesemani (Goin, 1966) Boeseman's Snouted Treefrog
S. boulengeri (Cope, 1887) Boulenger's Snouted Treefrog
S. brieni (De Witte, 1930) Brien's Snouted Treefrog
S. cabralensis[1] Drummond, Baêta & Pires, 2007
S. caldarum (Lutz, 1968) Caldas Snouted Treefrog
S. camposseabrai (Bokermann, 1968)
S. canastrensis (Cardoso and Haddad, 1982) Canastra Snouted Treefrog
S. cardosoi (Carvalho e Silva and Peixoto, 1991) Revolta Snouted Treefrog
S. carnevallii (Caramaschi and Kisteumacher, 1989) Rio Doce Snouted Treefrog
S. castroviejoi De la Riva, 1993 Temperate Snouted Treefrog
S. catharinae (Boulenger, 1888) Catharina Snouted Treefrog
S. centralis Pombal and Bastos, 1996
S. chiquitanus (De la Riva, 1990) Rio Negro Snouted Treefrog
S. constrictus Lima, Bastos, and Giaretta, 2005
S. crospedospilus (Lutz, 1925) Campo Belo Snouted Treefrog
S. cruentommus (Duellman, 1972) Manaus Snouted Treefrog
S. curicica Pugliese, Pombal, and Sazima, 2004 Lanceback Treefrog
S. cuspidatus (Lutz, 1925) Coastal Lowland Snouted Treefrog
S. danae (Duellman, 1986) Bolivar Snouted Treefrog
S. dolloi (Werner, 1903) Werner's Brazilian Treefrog
S. duartei (Lutz, 1951) Duarte's Snouted Treefrog
S. elaeochrous (Cope, 1875) Sipurio Snouted Treefrog
S. eurydice (Bokermann, 1968) Maracas Snouted Treefrog
S. exiguus (Duellman, 1986) Gran Sabana Snouted Treefrog
S. faivovichi Brasileiro, Oyamaguchi, and Haddad, 2007
S. flavidus La Marca, 2004
S. flavoguttatus (Lutz and Lutz, 1939) Yellowbelly Snouted Treefrog
S. funereus (Cope, 1874) Moyobamba Snouted Treefrog
S. fuscomarginatus (Lutz, 1925) Brown-bordered Snouted Treefrog
S. fuscovarius (Lutz, 1925) Snouted Treefrog
S. garbei (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926) Eirunepe Snouted Treefrog
S. granulatus (Peters, 1871)
Binomial Name
and Author
Common Name
S. hayii (Barbour, 1909) Hay's Snouted Treefrog
S. heyeri (Peixoto and Weygoldt in Weygoldt, 1986) Heyer's Snouted Treefrog
S. hiemalis (Haddad and Pombal, 1987) Sousas Snouted Treefrog
S. humilis (Lutz, 1954) Rio Babi Snouted Treefrog
S. ictericus Duellman and Wiens, 1993
S. jolyi Lescure and Marty, 2000
S. jureia (Pombal and Gordo, 1991) Jureia Snouted Treefrog
S. karenanneae (Pyburn, 1993) Vaupes Treefrog
S. kautskyi (Carvalho e Silva and Peixoto, 1991) Kautsky's Snouted Treefrog
S. kennedyi (Pyburn, 1973) Kennedy's Snouted Treefrog
S. lindsayi Pyburn, 1992 Lindsay's Snouted Treefrog
S. littoralis (Pombal and Gordo, 1991) Rio Verde Snouted Treefrog
S. littoreus (Peixoto, 1988) Coastal Snouted Treefrog
S. longilineus (Lutz, 1968) Lutz's Snouted Treefrog
S. luizotavioi (Caramaschi and Kisteumacher, 1989) Santa Barbara Snouted Treefrog
S. machadoi (Bokermann and Sazima, 1973) Machado's Snouted Treefrog
S. manriquei Barrio-Amorós, Orellana, and Chacón-Ortiz, 2004
S. maracaya (Cardoso and Sazima, 1980) Alpinopolis Snouted Treefrog
S. melloi (Peixoto, 1989) Southeastern Brazil Snouted Treefrog
S. nasicus (Cope, 1862) Lesser Snouted Treefrog
S. nebulosus (Spix, 1824) Spix's Snouted Treefrog
S. obtriangulatus (Lutz, 1973) Sao Paulo Snouted Treefrog
S. oreites Duellman and Wiens, 1993 Balzapata Snouted Treefrog
S. pachycrus (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937) Pocao Snouted Treefrog
S. parkeri (Gaige, 1929)
S. pedromedinae (Henle, 1991) Henle's Snouted Treefrog
S. peixotoi Brasileiro, Haddad, Sawaya, and Martins, 2007
S. perereca Pombal, Haddad, and Kasahara, 1995
S. perpusillus (Lutz and Lutz, 1939) Bandeirantes Snouted Treefrog
S. pinima (Bokermann and Sazima, 1973) Sazima's Treefrog
S. proboscideus (Brongersma, 1933) Gran Rio Snouted Treefrog
S. quinquefasciatus (Fowler, 1913) Fowler's Snouted Treefrog
S. ranki (Andrade and Cardoso, 1987) Rank's Snouted Treefrog
S. rizibilis (Bokermann, 1964) Santo Andre Snouted Treefrog
S. rostratus (Peters, 1863) Caracas Snouted Treefrog
S. ruber (Laurenti, 1768) Red Snouted Treefrog
S. similis (Cochran, 1952) Cochran's Snouted Treefrog
S. squalirostris (Lutz, 1925) Striped Snouted Treefrog
S. staufferi (Cope, 1865) Stauffer's Treefrog
S. strigilatus (Spix, 1824) Bahia Snouted Treefrog
S. sugillatus (Duellman, 1973) Quevedo Snouted Treefrog
S. trapicheiroi (A. Lutz and B. Lutz in Lutz, 1954) Three-lined Snouted Treefrog
S. trilineatus (Hoogmoed and Gorzula, 1979)
S. uruguayus (Schmidt, 1944) Schmidt's Uruguay Treefrog
S. v-signatus (Lutz, 1968) Forest Snouted Treefrog
S. wandae (Pyburn and Fouquette, 1971) Villavicencio Snouted Treefrog
S. x-signatus (Spix, 1824) Venezuela Snouted Treefrog

[edit] References

  • Duellman, W.E. and Wiens, J.J. 1992. The status of the hylid frog genus Ololygon and the recognition of Scinax Wagler, 1830. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History of the University of Kansas. 151:1-23.
  • Duellman, W.E. and Wiens, J.J. 1993. Hylid frogs of the genus Scinax Wagler, 1830, in Amazonian Ecuador and Peru. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History of the University of Kansas. 153:1-57.
  1. ^ Leandro de Oliveira Drummond, Délio Baêta & Maria Rita Silvério Pires, 2007: A new species of Scinax (Anura, Hylidae) of the S. ruber clade from Minas. Zootaxa 1612: 45–53

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