Scinax ictericus Duellman and Wiens, 1993

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

Scinax icterica Duellman and Wiens, 1993, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 153: 19. Holotype: KU 205349, by original designation. Type locality: "Cuzco Amazónico (12° 35′ S, 69° 05′ W, 200 m), 15 km east-northeast of Puerto Maldonado, Provincia Tambopata, Departamento Madre de Dios, Peru".

Scinax ictericusKöhler and Böhme, 1996, Rev. Fr. Aquar. Herpetol., 23: 139.

English Names

Madre de Dios Snouted Treefrog (Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 198).

Distribution

Elevations of less than 300 m in the drainages of the Río Purús and Río Madre de Dios in southern Peru, east into Acre, Brazil, northern to Caquetá Department, Colombia, and south into Amazonian Bolivia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru

Comment

In the Scinax ruber group according to the original publication. The Scinax ruber group rejected as nonmonophyletic by Faivovich, 2002, Cladistics, 18: 367-393. In the Scinax ruber clade of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 96. De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 57, and Köhler, 2000, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 48: 69, consider this species possibly to occur in Bolivia. Melo-Sampaio and Souza, 2015, Check List, 11 (Art. 1681): 1–6, provided a number of records from Acre, Brazil, and briefly discussed the range.  Gonzales-Álvarez and Reichle, 2004, Rev. Boliviana Ecol. Conserv. Ambiental, 15: 93–96, provided records for Chivé and Nueva España, Cachuela, northern Bolivia. Duellman, 2005, Cusco Amazonico: 240–242, provided an account (adult and larval morphology, description of the call, life history). Medina-Rangel, Thompson, Ruiz-Valderrama, Fajardo Muñoz, Lombana Lugo, Londoño-Guarnizo, Moquena Carbajal, Ríos Rosero, Sánchez Pamo, and Sánchez, 2019, in Pitman et al. (eds.), Bajo Caguán–Caquetá, Rapid Invent. 30: 119, reported the species from Caquetá Department, Colombia. See brief account for the Manu region, Peru, by Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 198–199. In the Scinax funereus 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): 113 (see comment under Hylinae).   

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