Scinax chiquitanus (De la Riva, 1990)
Ololygon chiquitana De la Riva, 1990 "1989", Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 4: 82. Holotype: EBD 28828, by original designation. Type locality: "Puerto Almacén, Río Negro, 70 Km al NO [northwest] de Concepción, Provincia Ñuflo de Chávez, Departamento de Santa Cruz, Bolivia (15° 46′ S, 62° 15′ O)".
Scinax chiquitana — Duellman and Wiens, 1992, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 151: 22.
Scinax chiquitanus — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 97.
English Names
Rio Negro Snouted Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 63).
Distribution
Known only from the type locality in Amazonian Bolivia and also from the Departamento de Madre de Dios, Peru.
Comment
In the Scinax ruber group according to the original publication. The Scinax ruber group rejected as nonmonophyletic by Faivovich, 2002, Cladistics, 18: 367-393. In the Scinax ruber clade, unassigned to group, of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 97. Peruvanian records from Duellman and Salas, 1991, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 143: 4. See account by Duellman and Wiens, 1993, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 153: 3-8. De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 36, suggested that Peruvian populations may not be conspecific with the Bolivian populations.
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