Scinax blairi (Fouquette and Pyburn, 1972)

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

Hyla blairi Fouquette and Pyburn, 1972, Herpetologica, 28: 176. Holotype: AMNH 84585, by original designation. Type locality: "near junction of Río Guaviare and Río Ariari, Vaupés, Colombia".

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

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

English Names

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

Distribution

Llanos of Colombia (departments of Arauca, Meta, and Guaviare), below 200 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia

Endemic: Colombia

Comment

In the Scinax ruber group according to Fouquette and Delahoussaye, 1977, J. Herpetol., 11: 392. In the Scinax ruber clade, unassigned to group, of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 97. Lynch, 2006, Caldasia, 28: 141–142, provided some life history notes. 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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