Scinax rupestris Araujo-Vieira, Brandão, and Faria, 2015

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

Scinax rupestris Araujo-Vieira, Brandão, and Faria, 2015, Zootaxa, 3915: 53. Holotype: MZUSP 112877, by original designation. Type locality: "Chapada dos Veadeiros, Goiás, Brazil (about 14° 09′ 30″ S, 47° 36′ 42″ W, 1.200 m elevation)". Zoobank publication registration: 5F6E2415-726A-478B-8F56-510BFFD19E05 

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

High elevation temporary rock-bed rivulets and creeks in the quartzitic rock mountains in the Chapada dos Veadeiros region, and the Serra do Tombador Nature Reserve, Goiás, Brazil 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

In the Scinax ruber clade according to the original publication (where the vocalization was described), most similar to Scinax cabralensisBang, Carvalho, Andrade, Haga, Bernardes, and Giaretta, 2017, Neotropical Biodiversity, 3: 117–124, reported on vocalization. Vaz-Silva, Maciel, Nomura, Morais, Guerra Batista, Santos, Andrade, Oliveira, Brandão, and Bastos, 2020, Guia Ident. Anf. Goiás e Dist. Fed. Brasil Central: 97, provided an account. Guerra Batista, Ramalho, Machado, and Brandão, 2022, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 53: 33–51, provided a record from the Serra do Tombador Nature Reserve, Goiás, Brazil, as part of a biodiversity study of that region. In the Scinax granulatus 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): 104 (see comment under Hylinae). Santos, Feio, and Nomura, 2023, Biota Neotrop., 23 (3:e20231486): 1–43, characterized tadpole morphology as part of an identification key to the tadpoles of the Brazilian Cerrado.    

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