Scinax lindsayi Pyburn, 1992

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

Scinax lindsayi Pyburn, 1992, Texas J. Sci., 44: 405. Holotype: UTA 4304, by original designation. Type locality: "north side of the Vaupés River, in Brazil [state of Amazonas], about 3 km. NW of Yapíma, Vaupés, Colombia".

Common Names

Lindsay's Snouted Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 64).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality in Amazonas, Brazil, and adjacent Vaupés and Amazonas, Colombia; likely extending north into southern Amazonas, Venezuela. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, Colombia

Likely/Controversially Present: Venezuela

Comment

In the Scinax x-signatus group, according to the original publication. In the Scinax ruber group of Pombal, Haddad, and Kasahara, 1995, J. Herpetol., 29: 1-6. In the Scinax ruber clade of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 96. Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 83, suggested the possibility that Scinax lindsayi is a junior synonym of Scinax baumgardneri. In the Scinax cruentomma 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): 96 (see comment under Hylinae).

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