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Scinax altae (Dunn, 1933)

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

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Hyla altae Dunn, 1933, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 8: 61. Holotype: MCZ 17972, by original designation. Type locality: "Summit, Panama Canal Zone", Panama. Synonymy by Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 863.

Hyla staufferi altae — León, 1969, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 18: 540.

Scinax altae — Duellman and Wiens, 1992, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 151: 21 (taxonomic change without discussion). Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 854.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Subhumid Pacific lowlands of Panama from Concepción, Chiriquí Province, to Chepo in the lower Bayano valley, Panamá Province, Panama.

Comment

For discussion (as Hyla staufferi altae) see Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 199-200. In the Scinax staufferi group. In the Scinax ruber clade, unassigned to group, of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 97.

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