Scinax juruena Ferrão, Hanken, Oda, Campião, Penhacek, Anjos, and Rodrigues, 2024

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Scinax > Species: Scinax juruena

Scinax juruena Ferrão, Hanken, Oda, Campião, Penhacek, Anjos, and Rodrigues, 2024, PLoS One, 19(1: e0292441): 7. Holotype: ABAM 3978, by original designation. Type locality: "an island (9˚52’5.11"S, 58˚12’32.02"W) in the Juruena River, municipality of Cotriguaçu, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil". Zoobank Publication Registration: B502ECB7-99B7-4998-8F80-2FAA9260BD0D

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known only from four islands in the archipelago of the Juruena River, southern Amazonia, northwestern Mato Grosso, Brazil

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

Comparative adult and larval morphology, mt- and nu-DNA markers, and advertisement call detailed in the original publication, where the new species was determined to a member of the Scinax cruentomma group. 

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