Scinax ushiniauae Gagliardi-Urrutia, Araujo-Vieira, Padial, Simões, Faivovich, and Castroviejo-Fisher, 2024

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

Scinax ushiniauae Gagliardi-Urrutia, Araujo-Vieira, Padial, Simões, Faivovich, and Castroviejo-Fisher, 2024, Zootaxa, 5406: 404. Holotype. CRBIIAP 2912, by original designation. Type locality: "Centro de Investigaciones Jenaro Herrera (CIJH), Requena, Loreto, Peru (datum WGS84; 4.901539° S, 73.633465° W, 123 m a.s.l.)". Zoobank publication registration: 9D3BB77F-2C7B-421C-B893-DDE8FC76F64A

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known from two localities in the Province of Requena, Department of Loreto, Amazonian Peru. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Peru

Endemic: Peru

Comment

In the Scinax cruentomma group according to the original publication, where comparative morphology, advertisement call, and molecular markers were referenced. This species corresponds to candidate species Scinax sp. 18, first noted by Araujo-Vieira, Lourenço, Lacerda, Lyra, Blotto, Ron, Baldo, Pereyra, Suárez-Mayorga, Baêta, Ferreira, Barrio-Amorós, Borteiro, Brandão, Brasileiro, Donnelly, Dubeux, Köhler, Kolenc, Leite, Maciel, Nunes, Orrico, Peloso, Pezzuti, Reichle, Rojas-Runjaic, Silva, Sturaro, Langone, Garcia, Rodrigues, Frost, Wheeler, Grant, Pombal, Haddad, and Faivovich, 2023, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 27 (Special Issue): 1–143. 

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