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Scinax caldarum (Lutz, 1968)

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

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Hyla duartei caldarum Lutz, 1968, Pearce-Sellards Ser., 10: 11. Holotype: MNRJ 4002, by original designation. Type locality: "Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais (Lat. 21° 50′ 20″ S., Long. 46° 33′ 53″ W., Alt. 1,100 meters)", Brazil.

Hyla caldarum — Cardoso, Andrade, and Haddad, 1989, Rev. Brasil. Biol., 49: 243.

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

English Names

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

Distribution

Known only from the type locality in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Comment

See also Andrade and Cardoso, 1991, Rev. Brasil. Biol., 51: 391-402. Placed in the Scinax ruber group by Pombal, Haddad, and Kasahara, 1995, J. Herpetol., 29: 1-6. 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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