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Scinax agilis (Cruz and Peixoto, 1983)

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

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Hyla agilis Cruz and Peixoto, 1983 "1982", Rev. Brasil. Biol., 42: 721. Holotype: EI 7123, by original designation. Type locality: "Ibiriba (19° 14′ S, 39° 55′ W, alt. aprox. 20 m.), Município de Linhares, Estado do Espírito Santo", Brazil.

Scinax agilis — Duellman and Wiens, 1992, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 151: 16, 21.

English Names

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

Distribution

Coastal region of Espírito Santo, Brazil, north through coastal Bahia, Sergipe, to Alagoas.

Comment

Related to Scinax berthae, according to the original publication. In the Scinax staufferi group according to Duellman and Wiens, 1992, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 151: 1-23. Transferred to the Scinax catharinae group by Faivovich, 2002, Cladistics, 18: 372. Bahia, Brazil, locality provided by Peixoto, Gomes, and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2003, Herpetol. Rev., 34: 163. In the Scinax catharinae clade of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 95. Toledo, 2005, Herpetol. Rev., 36: 75, provided the record from Alagoas, Brazil. Passos, Brusch, Lima, and Toledo, 2012, Check List, 8: 792-793, provided a record for the state of Sergipe, Brazil, and commented on the range.

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