| Scinax ruber | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Genus: | Scinax |
| Species: | S. ruber |
| Binomial name | |
| Scinax ruber (Laurenti, 1768) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Hyla coerulea Spix, 1824 |
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Scinax ruber is a species of frog of the Scinax genus in the Hylidae family.
S. ruber is widespread from sea level to around 2,600 masl throughout the Amazon Basin and the Guiana Shield in South America. It is also found in central Panama and the eastern lowlands of Darien Province in Panama, as well as Trinidad and Tobago.
It is native to Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, and possibly Paraguay. It is an introduced species in Martinique, Puerto Rico and Saint Lucia.[1]
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, dry or moist savanna, swamps, freshwater marshes, pastureland, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forest, ponds, and canals and ditches.