Scinax boulengeri (Cope, 1887)

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

Scytopis boulengeri Cope, 1887, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 32: 12. Holotype: USNM 13974, according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 77. Type locality: "Nicaragua".

Hyla boulengeriGünther, 1901, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Vol. 7, Part 165: 267.

Ololygon boulengeriFouquette and Delahoussaye, 1977, J. Herpetol., 11: 392.

Scinax boulengeriDuellman and Wiens, 1992, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 151: 10, 21.

Common Names

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

Distribution

Caribbean lowlands of Central America from eastern Honduras and Nicaragua to Panama; Pacific lowlands of Costa Rica and eastern Panama; eastern flank of the Cordillera Central from Antioquia to Caldas, Colombia, 600 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama

Comment

For discussion (as Hyla boulengeri) see Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 200-204; Savage and Heyer, 1969, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 16: 1–127; and Duellman, 1972, Zool. Meded., Leiden, 47: 180–181. Lips and Savage, 1996, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 109: 17–26, included this species in a key to the tadpoles found in Costa Rica. In the Scinax ruber clade, Scinax rostratus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 96–97. See also note by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 854. McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 610, reported the species from Gracias a Dios, Honduras. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 343–345. Vera Candioti, 2007, Zootaxa, 1600: 1–175, reported on detailed larval morphology. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 38, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras. See comments by Sunyer, Páiz, Dehling, and Köhler, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 189–202, regarding Nicaraguan populations. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 262–264, provided a brief summary of natural history and identification key for the species of Scinax in Central America and provided a range map and photograph for this species.. Sunyer, Martínez-Fonseca, Salazar-Saavedra, Galindo-Uribe, and Obando, 2014, Mesoam. Herpetol., 1: 170, provided a record for the department of Boaco, Nicaragua. In the Scinax rostratus group of 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): 76 (see comment under Hylinae). 

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