Scinax pachycrus (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937)

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

Hyla pachycrus Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937, O Campo, 1937: 55. Syntypes: MNRJ 236 (3 specimens) and 237 (4 examples); MNRJ 236A designated lectotype by Miranda-Ribeiro, 1955, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 42: 411. Type locality: "Poção, Pernambuco", Brazil.

Hyla pickeli Lutz and Lutz, 1938, An. Acad. Brasil. Cienc., 10: 189. Holotype: AL-MNRJ 1715, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 80. Type locality: "Tapera, State of Pernambuco", Brazil. Synonymy by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 58.

Hyla pachychrusBokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 58. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Ololygon pachychrusFouquette and Delahoussaye, 1977, J. Herpetol., 11: 394.

Scinax pachychrusDuellman and Wiens, 1992, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 151: 23. Misspelling of species name.

Scinax pachycrusPombal, Haddad, and Kasahara, 1995, J. Herpetol., 29: 5. Correction of species name.

Common Names

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

Distribution

Northeastern Brazil south to southeastern Bahia. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

Placed in the Scinax ruber group by Pombal, Haddad, and Kasahara, 1995, J. Herpetol., 29: 5. 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. Carneiro, Magalhães, and Juncá, 2004, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 62: 241–246, reported on the advertisement call and larval morphology. Novaes and Zina, 2016, Zootaxa, 4084: 258–266, reported on the advertisement call. Juncá, 2006, Biota Neotrop., 6: 1–17, briefly summarized the presence of this species in the Serra da Jibóia region, Bahia, Brazil, and its habitat. Nogueira, Zanoni, Solé, Affonso, Siqueira, and Sampaio, 2015, Genet. Mol. Biol., 38: 156–161, reported on karyology. Dubeux, Silva, Nascimento, Gonçalves, and Mott, 2019, Rev. Nordestina Zool., 12: 18–52, summarized the literature on larval morphology. See Dubeux, Nascimento, Lima, Magalhães, Silva, Gonçalves, Almeida, Correia, Garda, Mesquita, Rossa-Feres, and Mott, 2020, Biota Neotrop., 20 (2: e20180718): 1–24, for characterization and identification of larvae north of the Rio São Francisco in the Atlantic Forest of northeastern Brazil. 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): 122, did not assigned this species to a group, but did discuss its ambiguous placement in their tree (see comment under Hylinae).     

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