Ololygon agilis (Cruz and Peixoto, 1983)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Ololygon > Species: Ololygon agilis

Hyla agilis Cruz and Peixoto, 1983 "1982", Rev. Brasil. Biol., 42: 721. Holotype: EI 7123, by original designation. Type locality: "Ibiriba (19° 14′ S, 39° 55′ W, alt. aprox. 20 m.), Município de Linhares, Estado do Espírito Santo", Brazil.

Scinax agilisDuellman and Wiens, 1992, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 151: 16, 21.

Ololygon agilis — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 26. 

English Names

Agile Snouted Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 63).

Distribution

Coastal region of Espírito Santo, Brazil, north through coastal Bahia, Sergipe, to Alagoas (see comment). 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

Related to Scinax berthae, according to the original publication. In the Scinax staufferi group according to Duellman and Wiens, 1992, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 151: 1-23. Transferred to the Scinax catharinae group by Faivovich, 2002, Cladistics, 18: 372. Bahia, Brazil, locality provided by Peixoto, Gomes, and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2003, Herpetol. Rev., 34: 163. In the Scinax catharinae clade of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 95. Toledo, 2005, Herpetol. Rev., 36: 75, provided the record from Alagoas, Brazil. Nunes, Santiago, and Juncá, 2007, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 2: 89–96, described the advertisement call. Passos, Bruschi, Lima, and Toledo, 2012, Check List, 8: 792-793, provided a record for the state of Sergipe, Brazil, and commented on the range. Lourenço, Luna, and Pombal, 2014, Zootaxa, 3889: 268, suggested that some coastal records this species from Alagoas, Bahia, and Sergipe may be referable to Scinax melanodactylusDubeux, Silva, Nascimento, Gonçalves, and Mott, 2019, Rev. Nordestina Zool., 12: 18–52, noted that the larva remains undescribed. Included in the Ololygon agilis group according to 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): 53. 

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