Scinax pedromedinae (Henle, 1991)

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

Ololygon pedromedinae Henle, 1991, Salamandra, 27: 77. Holotype: ZFMK 39737, by original designation. Type locality: "Tres Chimbadas am Rio Tambopata, Departamento Madre de Dios, Peru".

Scinax pedromedinaeDuellman and Wiens, 1992, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 151: 23.

Scinax pedromedinaiDuellman, 1993, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 21: 103. Unjustified emendation; see Henle, 1997, Herpetol. Rev., 28: 67, and Dubois, 2007, Zootaxa, 1550: 67.

Common Names

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

Distribution

Upper Amazon Basin of eastern Peru, Acre and western Amazonas, Brazil, and northern Bolivia; expected in adjacent extreme southeastern Colombia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia, Brazil, Peru

Likely/Controversially Present: Colombia

Comment

In the Scinax rostratus group according to the original publication. 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 account by Duellman and Wiens, 1993, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 153: 36–37. De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 57, and Köhler, 2000, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 48: 69, considered this species possibly to occur in Bolivia. Duellman, 2005, Cusco Amazonico: 243–244, provided an account (adult and larval morphology, description of the call, life history). Hoogmoed and Avila-Pires, 2012 "2011", Bol. Mus. Parense Emilio Goeldi, Cienc. Nat., 6: 263–271, provided range extension to northeastern Peru and central Amazonas, Brazil. 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. See brief account for the Manu region, Peru, by Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 200–201. 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). Crnobrna, Santa-Cruz Farfan, Gallegos, López-Rojas, Llanqui, Panduro Pisco, and Kelsen Arbaiza, 2023, Check List, 19: 445, provided a record from Ucayali Department, central-eastern Peru. 

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